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Water Works (Posted on 2002-11-02) Difficulty: 2 of 5
You have a 5 gallon jug and a 3 gallon jug. You have no other measuring devices.

Measure out exactly 4 gallons of water (Assume you have a river handy, or some other limitless water supply).

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Solution best way | Comment 8 of 17 |
here is the easiest way...

pour 3 gal in to 5 gal. do it again and you are left with one gal in the small one. dump the 5 put the 1 gal into the big one, fill up three and add it to the 1 in the big jug.
==4 gal.

3,0
0,3
3,3 Fill up the big one
1,5
1,0
0,1
3,1
0,4

  Posted by Jonathan on 2003-03-11 09:16:16
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