how do you get 4 gallons of water?

Question

You have a hosepipe, a 3 gallon bucket,and a 5 gallon bucket. the buckets are clear and have no lines to measure.

Answer 1

fill the 3 gal and pour it into the 5

fill the 3 and pour enough into the 5 to fill it up, leaving 1 in the 3

empty the 5, then fill it w/ the 1 gallon that's in the 3-gal can

fill the 3 and empty it into the 5 - mission accomplished

Answer 2

Fill the 5 gallon bucket and empty into the 3 gallon. That leaves 2 gallons in the 5 gallon bucket. Now empty the 3 gallon bucket and empty the 5 gallon bucket into the 3 gallon bucket.

Now you have 2 gallons in the 3 gallon bucket.

Fill the 5 gallon bucket and take one gallon out to fill the 3 gallon bucket, and now you have 4 gallons in your 5 gallon bucket.

Wasn't that fun?

Answer 3

Fill the 3 gallon bucket. Dump it into the 5 gallon. Then fill up the 5 gallon half way between the top and the water that is in it from the 3 gallon bucket. Ta Da!

Answer 4

if you pour the 5 gallon bucket into the three gallon bucket that will give you 2 gallons left in the five gallon. You then pour out the 3 gallon bucket and pour the remaining 2 gallons from the five into the 3 gallon bucket. then you fill the 5 gallon bucket and pour one gallon into the 3 gallon bucket making the 3 gallon bucket full and the 5 gallon bucket have 4 gallons left in it.

Answer 5

Put the hosepipe into the 5 gallon bucket, now at the rim of the bucket grab the hosepipe marking it with your ginger. now do the same with the 3 gallon busket. you now have two marks, so halfway between then is the 4 gallon mark. Papa said there is more ways than one to skin a cat.

Answer 6

Fill up the three gallon bucket, put it in the five gallon bucket, fill up the three gallon bucket, pour what you can into the five gallon bucket. You will have one gallon left in the three gallon bucket. Dump the five gallon bucket and pour the gallon in the three gallon bucket into it. fill up the three gallon bucket and add it to the gallon in the five gallon bucket....,

Answer 7

use an empty milk carton that is a gallon....