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You go to a source of water with two jugs and only two jugs. One jug has a capacity of exactly three pints and the other five pints. Both jugs are opaque (you can`t see inside them) and irregularly shaped. You have no other water containers. You do not have a scale. How can you use the two jugs and only the two jugs to measure exactly four pints of water?
Hi,
Fill the three pint container and pour it into the five pint container. Fill the three pint container again and pour what you can into the five pint container. How much is left in the three pint container?
Penny