You are standing next to a well, and you have two jugs. One jug has a content of 3 liters and the other one has a content of 5 liters. How can you get just 4 liters of water using

only these two jugs?

• 1. First fill 5 liter jug.
  2. Pour from 5 liter jug to 3 liter jug. Now 5 liter jug will have 2 liters. 3 liter jug will have 3 liters.
  3. Pour the water in 3 liter jug back into well. Now 3 liter jug is empty. 5 liter jug will have same 2 liters.
  3. Pour remaining 2 liters from 5 liter jug into 3 liter jug. Now 3 liter jug will have 2 liters. 5 liter jug is empty.
  4. Fill again 5 liter jug.
  5. Pour from 5 liter jug into 3 liter jug. Already 3 liter jug has 2 liters. Now it can hold 1 more liter.
  So 5 liter jug now have only 4 liters.
• 12 years agoHelpfull: Yes(95) No(2)
• first fill the five litter jug.. pour its content to three litre jug.. now the water remaining in five litre jug is two...
  empty the three litre jug and again fill it with the remaining content of five litre jug....
  now fill the five litre jug... pour water from five litre jug to three litre jug which already contains two litres of water... thus it can accomodate only one more litre... therefore the five litre jug will now contain (5-1) 4 liltres of water
• 12 years agoHelpfull: Yes(8) No(0)
• 5ltr. 3ltr.
  5 0
  2 3
  2 0
  0 2
  5 2
  4 3
• 12 years agoHelpfull: Yes(4) No(0)
• 1. First fill 3 liter jug.
  2. Pour from 3 liter jug to 5 liter jug. do thus again. this time 3 liter jug has 1 lit in it
  3. Pour the water in 5 liter jug back into well. Now 5 liter jug is empty. 3 liter jug will have same 1 liters.
  3. Pour remaining 1 liters from 3 liter jug into 5 liter jug. Now 5 liter jug will have 1 liters. 3 liter jug is empty.
  4. Fill again 3 liter jug.
  5. Pour from 3 liter jug into 5 liter jug. Already 5 liter jug has 1 liters.
  So 5 liter jug now have only 4 liters.
• 12 years agoHelpfull: Yes(4) No(0)
• simply you can see this in following way
  step 1- use half of the 3 litre jug content
  in this way you will use 1.5 content
  step 2-use half of the 5 litre jug content
  NOW
  total content used=content used in step(1) + content used in step(2)
  =1.5 + 2.5
  = 4 litre content
  
• 12 years agoHelpfull: Yes(3) No(4)
• 1.first fill 3 liter jug
  2.pour from 3 liter to 5 liter jug
  3.again fill 3 liter jug and pour to 5 liter jug. now 3 liter jug has 1 liter
  4.pour back 5 liter jug into well
  5.and pour 3 liter jug into 5 liter jug witch has 1 liter
  6.now fill 3 liter jug and pour into 5 liter jug.
  now there is total 4 liter water in 5 liter jug.
  
• 10 years agoHelpfull: Yes(2) No(0)
• 1)Fill the 5 liter jug.
  2)Pour 3 liters of water into 3 liter jug. The jug with capacity of 5 liter will have 2 liters of water left in it and other will have 3 liters of water i it.
  3)Pour the 3 liter jug's water back to well and empty the 5 liter jug water into 3 liter jug. Now the 3 liter jug will have 2 liters of water and 5 liter jug is empty.
  4)Fill the 5 liter jug and pour it in 3 liter jug. Since 3 liter jug was having 2 liters of water in it, only 1 liter of water will be required to fill it.
  5)The jug with capacity of 5 liter will be left with 4 liters of water.
• 12 years agoHelpfull: Yes(1) No(0)
• 5 lit 3 lit
  -------------------
  5 0
  5-3=2 3
  2 0
  0 2
  5 2
  5-1=4 2+1=3
  
• 10 years agoHelpfull: Yes(1) No(0)
• There are 2 methods to answer this question
  
  5lit 3lit 3lit 5lit
  5 0 3 0
  2 3 0 3
  2 0 3 3
  0 2 1 5
  5 2 1 0
  4 3 0 1
  4 0 3 1
  4 0
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(1) No(0)
• first take 3 liters using 3 liters container ..and 5 liters container fill with three liters.......next again take 3 liters using 3liters container and fill 5 liters container fully...3 liters container have 1liter....empty the 5 liters container and fill with 1litre in 3 liter container...... again take 3 liters using 3liters container and fill 5 liters container....from that we can get 4liters in 5liter container........
• 9 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(0)
• we have only 3 liter,5 liter jugs. we want to make 4 liter using these jugs.
  1. fill the 3 liter jug and pour the water into 5liter jug.
  2.again fill the 3liter jug and pour into same 5 liter jug.the 5 liter jug will filled. The remaining one litr in 3liter jug.
  3.then empty the 5litr jug and fill the remaining one liter water in 3 liter jug into 5liter jug.
  4.fill the 3liter jug and pour into the 5liter jug .so 5liter jug have 4liter water.
  
• 9 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(0)
• 1. Fill 3l jug completely. Then pour all water to empty 5l jug.
  2. Again fill 3l jug completely and pour to 5l jug, but this time you will left 1litre water in 3l jug as capacity of larger jug is 5l.
  3. Empty 5l jug, and pour a litre of water from 3l jug to it.
  4. Now fill 3l jug completely, this time you have 4l of water.
  
  
  
  
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(0)