You have 2 five-gallon containers, one filled with water and one with 3 gallons. How do you get 4 gallons without using anything other than the 2 containers you already have?
I can't figure the answer out... i just know that it's not "pour the 5 into the 3 until they are even at 4..."
2007-10-21 08:33:14 · 6 answers · asked by Kat 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
You guys are lifesavers... I have an interview with Delta this week and a friend of mine who got the job told me they ask this in the interview. I was confused because I thought they were BOTH 5 gallon containers, so I couldn't figure it out!
2007-10-21 09:53:16 · update #1
Watch the die hard movie, I saw this there, the one with Samuel L. Jackson. I always forget but this is a good riddle!
Now would you please, pretty please answer my joke? It is just for a good laugh!!!
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2007-10-21 09:20:13 · answer #1 · answered by ♂♥♀ & ♀♥♂ ∞! Love Oh Love ! ♫♥♪ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pour the 5 gallons out... Make it into four...
Or..Fill the 5 gallon container and empty it into the 3 gallon contains so the latter is just full. Now there is 2 gallons left in the 5 gallon container. Empty the 3 gallon container and spill the 2 gallons into the 3 gallon container. Fill the 5 gallon container and empty it so it just fills the 3 gallon container (you need one gallon to do this). Now there are 4 gallons left in the 5 gallon container.
Another solution as pointed out by a Dr. Solina is to take the 3 gallon and fill it. Empty it into the 5 gallon. Now use the 3 gallon container again to fill the 5 gallon all the way. What remains in the 3 gallon container is one gallon. Now, empty the 5 gallon container and pour the one gallon into it. Just add the contents of a 3 gallon container into it to make 4 gallons.
2007-10-21 08:43:54 · answer #2 · answered by ♥Chamillitary Amberleé♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one 3 gallon bucket one 5 gallon right? there are two ways to solve it
method 1: take the 5 gallon and fill it up all the way and pour it into the 3 gallon. U have 2 left. pur all the water out of the 3 gallon than pur the 2 gallons into the 3 gallon. 2 in the 3 0 in the 5. fill the 5 gallon all the way and fill the 3 gallon the rest of the way. 3 in the 3 gallon and 4 in the 5 gallon...ALL DONE!
method 2:fill the 3 all the way and pur it into the 5 fill the 3 again and pour that into the 5 gallon...1 in 3, 5 in 5. empty the 5. pur the 1 gallon into the 5 SOOOOOOO, 1 in 5, 0 in 3. fill the 3 all the way and pur it into the 5
hope i didnt confuse u!
2007-10-21 08:42:36 · answer #3 · answered by Bob B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard this but the water wasn't already in the containers.
What you did was fill the 3 gal twice dumping it 2 times into the 5 gal. When the five gal was full you dumped it and put the 1 gal left over in the 5 gal . Then fill the 3 gal and add it to the 1 gal for 4 gal total.
I suppose if you could freeze the five gal and put it aside, dump the three gal into the 5 gal. then let the three gal fill up from the melting ice, dump into the five gal which would leave 1 gal in the 3 gal. Then refreeze the five gal, take the ice out put in the 1 gal. then catch another 3 gal from the melting ice and add to the 1 gal in the big bucket.
I'll loan you three dollars, that'll get you four gallons of spring water from walmart
2007-10-21 08:48:38 · answer #4 · answered by andyg77 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You already have 4 gallons with 4 more to spare. Nobody said you had to have 4 gallons in any one container.
2007-10-21 08:40:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
dont you freeze it or something?
2007-10-21 08:37:01 · answer #6 · answered by alexds_92 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋