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There are 2 bottle of wine contain 800 ml each, and 2 empty glass with 300 ml capacity each, There is no instrument of measuring, How to divide the 1600 ml of wine to 4 people equally ?
Provide the steps.

2007-10-15 18:18:28 · 9 answers · asked by Isaac Proff 1 in Science & Mathematics Mathematics

9 answers

Bottles (800ml) named A and B.
Bottles (300ml) named C and D.

Task: Need to divide wine into 4 glasses of 400ml

1) A into C
2) A into D
3) A into glass 1
4) C and D back into A
5) B into C
6) B into D
7) B into glass 1 ==> glass 1 has 400ml now.
8) C into A ==> A has 800ml now, C has 100ml left.
9) C into glass 2 and D into glass 2 ==> glass 2 has 400ml now.
10) Repeat steps 1 to 4 into glass 3 now ==> glass 3 has 400ml now.
11) Left over into glass 4

Done!

2007-10-15 18:26:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

Let the 4 numbers (in 100ml) be the amount in the 2 wine bottles and the 2 empty glasses.
8 8 0 0
8 2 3 3
8 0 3 3 1st person drank 200 ml
4 4 3 3 pour 1st bottle into 2nd bottle until they are at the same level
0 4 3 3 2nd person drank 400 ml
4 4 0 2 pour back wine into the 1st bottle till it is at the same level as the 2nd
0 0 0 0 1st person drank another 200 ml, thus 1st person now have drunk 400 ml, 3rd and 4th person each drank 400 ml.

2007-10-16 04:51:54 · answer #2 · answered by back2nature 4 · 0 1

* Take bottle #1 of the 800 ml bottles of wine.
* Pour 2 - 300 ml empty glasses full of wine
* Throw away the remainder of the wine in the bottle.
* Pour all of the wine which is in the 2 - 300 ml glasses back into the wine bottle
* Repeat the same process above - with the #2 bottle of wine
* Take bottle #1 of wine - and pour one of the 300 ml glasses full
* Take bottle #2 of wine - and pour the other 300 ml glass full
This will be serving 4 people equally.

2007-10-16 22:18:46 · answer #3 · answered by Tara 7 · 0 2

Fill both glasses and let two people drink. Now 2 people have drank 300 ml each and one bottle has 200 ml left. Do it again with the other bottle. Now all 4 people have drunk 300 ml each. Now pour equal amounts in both glasses from one bottle, do it again. Each person will have had 400 ml.

2007-10-16 01:27:46 · answer #4 · answered by Nelson_DeVon 7 · 0 1

wine bottles = 800 ml each x 2 = 1600 ml every one will have 400ml each if there are 4 people
2 glasses = 300 ml each

serve 300 ml to each person resulting in taking 600ml from each bottle leaving 200ml in each bottle

pour the remaining 200 ml from 1 bottle and 100 ml from, the other bottle into one of the glasses. This leaves 100 ml in the bottle look at the mark on the glass. server that amount to each person. 300ml + 100ml

2007-10-16 01:30:06 · answer #5 · answered by r r 5 · 1 2

The question appears to be impossible. To recieve an equal share, everyone would have to get 400ml which exceeds the capacity of the 300 ml glasses.

2007-10-16 01:25:00 · answer #6 · answered by ironclownfish 3 · 0 2

I did it the same way Recon did it.

2007-10-16 01:42:29 · answer #7 · answered by J T 6 · 0 1

You messed something up in transcribing this question.

2007-10-16 01:27:57 · answer #8 · answered by zebj25 6 · 0 1

grab another glass.. I'm stumped

2007-10-16 01:41:10 · answer #9 · answered by redworm2k2 3 · 0 1

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