How do you make 4 Gallons of Water Using a 3 Gallon / 5 Gallon Jug?

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How do you make 4 Gallons of Water Using a 3 Gallon / 5 Gallon Jug?

This is a classic from Die Hard 3 (rr at least that's where I saw it first)

"Sitting on the lip of a fountain in a park are a 5-gallon jug and a 3-gallon jug. The timer will stop if they place a jug containing 4 gallons of water on a scale attached to the bomb."

How do you make 4 gallons of water using a 5-gallon jug and a 3-gallon jug?

rule #1 : You cannot do Google searches to find the answer
rule #2 : You cannot do Google searches to find the answer
rule #3 : You only have 2 jugs and no not that kind of jugs

hint : Here is half of the answer
 
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Fill the 5 gal, pour out into 3 gal.....2 remain.....pour into another receptacle.....repeat and put on scale :wink: no boom :blushing:





ETA: Highlight to see, no google search....:shhh:I'm not a cheater like Ultimate....
 
I did a google search, LOL :teeth: but that's just ME! I won't post the answer though, OR WILL I? MUAAAHHHA HA HA HA HA HA HA
 
ooooo ooooo I know this one ... it was in a TombRaider video game.... oh but that was forever ago...... lol
 
3 gallons 3 times = 9 gallons
9 gallons - 5 gallons = 4 gallons.
no boom
 
DanC said:
3 gallons 3 times = 9 gallons
9 gallons - 5 gallons = 4 gallons.
no boom
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My solution was less work.....:tongue:...no heavy lifting neither....:rofl:
 
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precocious said:
no boom :blushing:
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You can't do it that way - You only have the two containers available.

There is a way to do it with only the two containers and no, I didn't search for it.

Highlight to see the solution - fill up 3 gallon jug, pour into 5 gallon jug. Fill up 3 gallon jug again and fill up 5 gallon jug with it. There is now one gallon left in the 3 gallon jug. Empty 5 gallon jug, pour the 1 gallon into the 5 gallon jug, refill 3 gallon jug and pour into 5 gallon jug. There are now 4 gallons in the 5 gallon jug.
 
"Sitting on the lip of a fountain in a park are a 5-gallon jug and a 3-gallon jug. The timer will stop if they place a jug containing 4 gallons of water on a scale attached to the bomb."

How do you make 4 gallons of water using a 5-gallon jug and a 3-gallon jug?
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thoreau said:
You can't do it that way - You only have the two containers available.
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:nono: He didn't say you only have 2 containers.....:nonod:

:rant:

:yesnod:But your solution works as well....:wink:
 
Who is the trainwreck that only gave this thread 1 star?
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:clap: thoreau's way was the way I did it in the video game lol And I only had 2 jugs to work with (if i remember correctly) :yesnod:
 
Spoiler alert!

Oh, comon people.....that's easy... And yes, you ONLY have 2 containers.
















A little bit of critical thinking and thinking "outside of the box", and you come up with the answer

1. Fill up 3 to the top
2. Pour contents into 5, (now 5 has exactly 3 gallons in it)
3. Fill up 3 to the top
4. Start pouring into into 5 until you top 5 off (then 3 will have exactly 1 gallon in it)
5. Empty 5
6. Pour 3 (1 gallon) into it.
7. Fill up 3 to the top and empty it inside the 5, making exactly 4 gallons of water in the 5 gallon tank. :tongue:
 
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rule #3 : You only have 2 jugs and no not that kind of jugs
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I concede, if I had 3 jugs.....that just wouldn't be right....:tongue:
 
precocious said:
I concede, if I had 3 jugs.....that just wouldn't be right....:tongue:
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:thinking: I don't know......


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And, by the way if you want my solution to the problem, see my post above
 
kiddha

fill up the five gallon.
from that five gollon...fill up the three gallon
now u r left with 2 gallon in 5 gallon jug. 3 gallon in 3 gallon jug
pour the 3 gallon out
put the remaining two gallons in the three gallon jug
FILL the five gallon again
start pouring into the 3 gallon jug(which already has 2 gallon of water in it)
and waLLah u arel left with 4 gallons in the 5 gallon jug.
 
another solution

anothe way of doing it can be

fill up the three gallons
pour it in the 5 gallon jug
now u have 3 gallon in 5 gallon. 0 gallon in three gallon jug
fill up the three gallon again.
pour into 5 gallon until full.
now 5 gallon is full and u r left with 1 gallon in 3 gallon jug.
dump the 5 gallon out.
pour the 1 gallon in the 5 gallon jug
fill up the 3 gallon again.
pour it into the 5 gallon jug(which already has 1 gallon in there)
waLLah...u got ur self 4 gallons and another way to solve this.

I'm still workin on more ways to solve this.
 
precocious said:
*ahem* Obviously you were distracted by the jugs.......basically my solution was the same....:doh:and I said it first....
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*ahem* No it wasn't........a 3-jugger cheater, you!
 
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