Test your skills of deduction with the August 2024 edition of Riddle Me This: Water Buckets.
You have a 5-gallon bucket, a 3-gallon bucket, and a water faucet. How can you accurately put four gallons of water into the 5-gallon bucket?
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Fill the 3 gallon bucket. Pour into the 5 gallon bucket. Fill the 3 gallon bucket. Pour into the 5 gallon bucket only until the 5 gallon bucket is full, leaving 1 gallon in the 3 gallon bucket. Empty the 5 gallon bucket. Pour the 1 gallon into the 5 gallon bucket. Fill the 3 gallon bucket. Pour into the 5 gallon bucket.
This seems like the hard way and will be hard to pour specific quantities mentioned in the solution. My solution is to pour from the three gallon bucket two times until the 5 gallon bucket is full, keeping one gallon in the 3 gallon bucket. Then empty the 5 gallon bucket and pour the one leftover gallon into the empty 5 gallon bucket. Last, fill the 3 gallon bucket and pour all into the 5 gallon bucket to make 4 gallons.
That’s what I was thinking.