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Three containers have capacities of three five and nine liters How can these containers be used to measure exactly seven liters of water?
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∙ 13y ago
Several ways to achieve this - here is one solution.
Fill the 5 litre container and pour it all into the 9 litre container.
Fill the 5 litre container and pour it into the 9 litre container until the latter is full - leaving 1 litre in the 5 litre container.
Empty the 9 litre container.
Fill the 3 litre container and empty into 9 litre container. Repeat. There are now 6 litres in the 9 litre container.
Pour the 1 litre from the 5 litre container into the 9 litre container which now contains 7 litres.
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This method works with any such problem, as long as the two buckets' liter-capacities (or gallon capacities, etc.) have no common factors, or else the common factors are also factors of the amount you're trying to measure. Fill the 7-liter bucket, and empty 5 liters of it into the 5-liter bucket; then dump out the 5 liters. Two liters will remain in the 7-liter bucket; transfer them to the 5-liter bucket. Fill the 7-liter bucket again, and empty enough of the bucket into the 5-liter bucket to fill it. That should only be 3 liters transfered, leaving 4 liters left in the 7-liter bucket. QED.
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