2 Riddles that are stumping me- Help please!?

Question

These are 2 of 20 riddles that are completely stumping me- does anyone know the solutions?

1. A dairy farmer had a 10-gallon pail full of milk and needed to measure it into two separate 5-gallon portions. But he only had the 10-gallon pail, a 3-gallon pail and a 7-gallon pail. How'd he do it?
You must use all buckets

2. Grandpa Jones announced one evening that at 2:45 the next morning, everyone should meet in the barn to begin milking the cows. Why did no one show up?

1. You live in a one-room square house with a window centered in each of the four walls. All the windows face south. If a bear walks by one of the windows, what color is he?
2. A rancher has 1,432 feet of fence that must be strung in a straight line to keep his cattle from straying. A fence post must be placed every 4 feet. How many fence posts will he need?
3. A farmer went out to buy some livestock for his farm. He only had $100 to spend, but he found a neighbor who would sell him 100 animals for $100. Chickens were $.50 each, pigs were $3 each and cows were $10 each. How many of each animal did he get for his money, spending exactly $100 and getting exactly 100 critters for his farm?
A farmer went to the store to buy something for his farm house. The clerk told him 1 would cost $.25, 12 would cost $.50 and 122 would cost $.75. What was the farmer buying?
You throw away the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside and throw away the inside.
I can't post them all Thanks so much

Answer 1

1) Pour milk into 3 gal pail, then the 3 into the 7
Pour another 3 gal, and add to the 7 gal pail
Pour another 3 gal, and add to 7...which leaves 2 gallons in the 3 gallon pail
Pour the contents of the 7 gallon pail back into the 10
Pour the 2 gallons into the 7
Fill the 3, add it to the 7
five & five!

Answer 2

1> I will put the amounts of transfer of milk in a more visual way: the first listed number will be the 10 gallon pail, the second will be the 3 gallon pail, and the third will be the 7 gallon pail (example 10-0-0 ->means 10 gallons in the 10 gallon pail, and none in the 3 gallon or 7 gallon pails, respectively). 10-0-0 to 3-0-7, then 3-3-4, then 6-3-1 (this is key because now you have 1 gallon by itself). Then 9-0-1 (moving the 3 gallons to the 10 gallon pail). then 9-1-0, then 2-1-7 (by filling the 7 gallon from the remaining in the 10 gallon). Then 2-3-5 (by filling the remaining amount of pail in the 3 gallon->look you now have 5 gallons by itself). The next step finishes it by combining the 3 gallons with the 2 gallons left in the 10 gallon pail to make 5-0-5.

2> No idea, I'm intrigued to know the answer though.

Answer 3

2+2=

Answer 4

For the first one: use the 10 gallon bucket to fill the 3 gallon bucket. dump it in the 7 and fill the three up again. once again dump it in the 7. now fill it up one more time and dump one of the 3 gallons in until it fills up the 7. you'll then have 2 gallons in the 3 gallon pail. no dump the 7 back into the 10. dump the 2 gallons in the 3 gallon bucket into the 7. then fill the tree up and dump it in the 7 again. you should have 5 and 5.
The second is probally because 2:45 is pretty early to be milking a cow.

Answer 5

1. pour the milk from the 10 gallon pail into the other two pails. fill the 10 gallon pail half way. Take the remainder and pour into the 7 gallon pail. each will have 5 gallons

2. it was spring and daylight savings started. so at 2:00a.m. the clocks moved forward to 3:00a.m. so there was no 2:45!

Answer 6

ok, the one about the gallons was on a Bruce Willis movie....
i think that tgis is how it goes...
pour from the 10 gallon into the 3 gallon. then oour the 3 gallons into the 7 gallon. there should be 4 more gallons of space, and fill it up 1/2 way...that should give you 5 gallons...then you have 5 gallons left= 2 containers of 5 gals each...

the second one=
1. no one was home?
2. they overslept?
3. didn't mention which morning?
4. didn't mention whose barn?
5. grandpa doesn't have any cows?
6. no alarm clocks?
7. the "next morning" i.e. tomorrow never comes?

(i like no 7)

Answer 7

For the first question :-
1. Pour 3-g
2. Pour balance into 7-g
3. Pour 2-g from 7-g bucket into 10-g bucket

Then all the buckets are used. 3-g plus the 2-g in the 10-g bucket and the bal 5-g in the 7-g bucket.

For the 2nd :-

Guess that the barn has no cows or had different animals.

Answer 8

fill the 7 gallon bucket from the 10.
fill the three gallon with the 7 leaving four gallons in the 7
dump the 3 into the 10.
fill the 3 with the 7 leaving one gallon in the 7
dump the 3 into the 10 leaving nine gallons in the 10
dump the one gallon from the7 into the 3
fill the 7 with the 10 leaving two gallons in the 10.
fill the 3 with the 7 leaving five gallons in the 7
dump the 3 into the 10 leaving five gallons in the 10

Answer 9

pour from
10 to 3
3 to 7
10 to 3
3 to 7
10 to 3
now you got 1 in the 10, 6 in the 7 and 3 in the 3 so
3 to 7
now you got 1 in the 10, 7 in the 7 and 2 in the 3
7 to 10
so you got 8 in the 10, 0 in the 7 and 2 in the 3
3 to 7
10 to 3
3 to 7
so you got 5 in the 10 and 5 in the 7 and zero in the 3.

that is one.. the other i dont know... maybe the next morning meant the day after.

Answer 10

1) Okay for simplicity I'm going to color the buckets: Green (10gal), Red (7gal) and Blue (3gal).

1a) Start with a full Green (10gal) bucket, and fill the Blue bucket. (Green = 7g, Red = 0g, Blue = 3g)

1b) Empty the Blue into the Red (Green = 7g, Red = 3g, Blue = 0g)

1c) Take the Green bucket and fill the Blue bucket again. (Green = 4g, Red = 3g, Blue = 3g)

1d) Empty the Blue into the Red again. (Green = 4g, Red = 6g, Blue = 0g)

1e) Take the Green bucket and fill the Blue a third time. (Green = 1g, Red = 6g, Blue = 3g)

1f) Take the Blue and top off the Red bucket. (Green = 1g, Red = 7g, Blue = 2g)

1g) Dump the Red into the Green. (Green = 8g, Red = 0g, Blue = 2g)

1h) Dump the Blue into the Red (Green = 8g, Red = 2g, Blue = 0g)

1i) Take the Green bucket and fill the Blue (Green = 5g, Red = 2g, Blue = 3g)

1j) Dump the Blue into the Red and there you go (Green = 5g, Red = 5g, Blue = 0g)

2) Don't really know, maybe he made the announcement on daylight savings time (rolling clocks back) or when the clocks roll forward.

OR they all could have said "F*** that!! I'm no getting up at 2:45 in the f***ing morning!!" and that's why they didn't show. =P