Homework help!! If mike had 3 containers one of them is 3 ther other is 5 and the other is 8 how can u use-?

Question

The conatainers to equal 4 liters

Answer 1

Okay:

Fill the 8 and the 5. Mike's now got 13 litres. Empty 3 litres from the 8 into the empty 3 litre container and discard. Mike's now got 5 litres in the 8 and 5 litres in the 5. Empty another three. Mike's now got 2 in the 8 and 5 in the 5. Empty 3 from the five. Mike's now got 2 in the 8 and 2 in the 5. Combine the 2 litres from the 5 litre container into the 8 litre container. The 8 litre container should now have 4 litres of substance in it.

Confusing, I know, but I hope it helps.

Answer 2

This sounds like there can be multiple solutions, but here's our stab at it:

1) Fill up the 5 liter container and use it to fill the 3 liter container all the way up, leaving the 5 liter one with 2 liter remaining.
2) Dump the two units into the empty 8 liter one.
3) Dump out the 3 liter container and repeat steps 1 and 2 and you should have four liters in the 8 liter container.

I have a feeling there are more instructions to this problem then we're being led on to believe

Answer 3

I would say that you fill the 3 liter cantainer TWICE and pour it into the 8 liter container, Then fill the 3 liter for a THIRD time and you will be left with exactly 1 liter in the 3 liter container. Pour that into the 5 liter container and then fill the 3 liter container again and pour the 3 liters into the 5 liter container to make exactly 4 liters!

Answer 4

If the conatainers are equal 4 liters and 3 ther other is 5 and it is October and last year was 2005 and manchester United win the cup and if Madonna was my uncle and if Elvis was still selling fish and chips in Barnsley and if my cat had a flea called Jim and if Mount Everest was only 36 feet tall and if Tom, Dick and Harry caught a cold when they went fishing in the supermarket when they should have been cleaning the cricket bats in Yorkshire and the . . . . wha?

Answer 5

this is simliar to another question last night.
Write more clearly, but....
Fill the 5-litercan, then pour it into the 3. You're left with 2. PUt that into the 8 liter can, do it again, you have 4.
OR
fill the 3 liter can, pour it into the 5. Fill the 3 liter can again, pour ias much as you can into the 5, you're left with 1. Pour out the water from the 5. Put that 1 liter into the 5 liter, fill the 3 liter again, join it with the one from the 5 liter can, and you don't even have to use the 8-liter can :)

Answer 6

Fill the 5 container to the max then dump it into the 3 container until it is full. Whatever is left in the 5 is going to be 2 litters so dump that into the eight litters. Then repeat. 5-3=2 then you dump it into teh countainer of 8 litters and you have a total of four.

Answer 7

Fill 5
Pour into 3 until 3 is full
There will now be 2 liters in 5
pour into 8
Repeat

Answer 8

FILL THE 5 LITER BUCKET FULL WITH WATER
POUR ALL WATER FROM 5 LITER INTO 3 LITER UNTIL 3 LITER IS FULL
2 LITER OF WATER IS LEFT IN THE 5 LITER BUCKET
DUMP OUT THE 3 LITER BUCKET
NOW POUR THE REST OF THE 2 LITER WATER FROM 5 LITER BUCKET INTO EMPTY 3 LITER BUCKET
3 LITER BUCKET HAS 2 LITERS OF WATER and 1 LITER OF AIR....
NOW FILL THE EMPTY 5 LITER BUCKET WITH WATER AGAIN AND POUR INTO THE 3 LITER BUCKET UNTIL 3 LITER BUCKET IS FULL
BECAUSE THERE IS 1 LITER OF AIR IN 3 LITER BUCKET, ONLY 1 LITER OF WATER WILL BE REQUIRED TO FILL 3 LITER BUCKET
LEAVING 5 LITER BUCKET WITH 4 LITERS OF WATER

HA I DIDNT EVEN USE 8 LITER BUCKET....MOO!!

Answer 9

i think thats impossible bc you have 3 containers and 16 liters. it doesnt work out