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Suppose you have a 4 liter jug and a 9 liter bucket . The buckets have no measurement lines on them either....?

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Suppose you have a 4 liter jug and a 9 liter bucket . The buckets have no measurement lines on them either. How could you measure exactly 6 liter using only those buckets and you have as much extra water as you need?

posted Jul 14, 2017 by Ranjit Bera

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Fill 4 ltr in 9 ltr twice
Now 9 ltr jug has 8ltr
Take another 4 ltr add 1 ltr to 9 ltr jug and empty 9 ltr jug
Now the 4 ltr jug has 3ltr add it to 9 ltr jug
Then add 4 ltr and 2 ltr to 9 ltr jug and empty it again
Now 4 ltr jug has 2 ltr empty it to 9 ltr jug
then add another 4 ltr
Now you have exactly 6 ltr in the 9 ltr jug.

answer Jul 14, 2017 by Tejas Naik



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