- Measuring with Two Containers,
a selection of answers from the Dr. Math archives.
- Using 3C and 5C Pails to get 4 Cups
- Get exactly 4 cups of water using a 5-cup pail and a 3-cup pail.
- 4- and 9-liter Pails: How to Measure
7 Liters
- How can you measure 7 liters using only 4-liter and 9-liter pails?
A strategy for solving this kind of problem.
- Six Quarts of Water, 2 Containers
- How can you measure 6 quarts of water with only 4-qt. and 9-qt. pails?
- The Three Canteens
- You have only one 14-cup canteen full of water, and two empty canteens
that will hold nine and five cups respectively...
- Jack & Jill Mind Teaser
- If Jack had a 5 gal. bucket and Jill had 3 gal. bucket, and they each
carried an equal amount to fill an 8 gal. bucket, how was this accomplished?
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