I must be missing the obvious here.
If you have a five gallon milk jug and a three gallon milk jug, how do you measure exactly one gallon without wasting (pouring out) any milk.
I came up with filling up the three gallon jug and pouring it into the five gallon jug and then repeating it. When the five gallon jug is full, you have one gallon left in the three gallon jug. But this is not the answer he is looking for.
Thanks!
2007-08-25 03:52:08 · 6 answers · asked by I ♥ old VW's 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
You've done it!
No you are not missing the obvious.
Your teacher is a W@nker who cannot write the problem he wants you to solve
2007-08-25 04:01:12 · answer #1 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe he wants the answer in the 5 gallon jug and not in the 3 gallon. Might take little longer but.
Pour exactly 3 gallons into the 3gal jug. Pour all of that into the 5gal jug. Then just try to pour 2gal into the 3gal jug from the 5gal. Then just do a side to side measurement.
I know there is a trick to this question. There was one just like this one in the movie "Die Hard Vengance" when Bruce Willis and Samuel A Jackson are at a water fountain and they have a 3gal and 5gal jug and they need to determine how to get exactly 1gal of water to stop the bomb.
2007-08-25 11:07:50 · answer #2 · answered by shvdnlayd95 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fill the three gallon jug less than half???
2007-08-25 11:01:05 · answer #3 · answered by Bhavi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, thats the right answer!!!! He probably didn't realize it was that simple
2007-08-25 11:01:41 · answer #4 · answered by momoray2002 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see your answer as accurate.
2007-08-25 10:58:00 · answer #5 · answered by GTB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you did get the right answer! (:
2007-08-25 11:02:39 · answer #6 · answered by pigley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋