self Maths Puzzle

You have a full bucket containing 24 liters of liquid.

You also have three empty buckets: one of 5 liters, one of 11 liters, and one of 13 liters.

How could you divide the 24 liters of liquid into three equal parts, so that you have three buckets containing 8 liters each?

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fill 13 litre bucket
den from dis fill 5 lit. left = 13-5= 8 and now dis is put in to 11 litre and kept dis away.
from 5 litre bucket liquid is transfered to main(24 litre) bucket. it have now= 24-13+5=16 litre.
from dis fill 13 litre bucket and from 13 litre. fill 5 litre so in 13 litre 8 liyte is left.
kept is seprate.
and 5 litre bucket is poured back to 24 litre. it have= 16-13+5=8.

so now in 11 litre, 13 litre, 24 litre bucket have 8 litre in all three and 5 litre bucket is empty.
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self Other Question

You are going to mix up some concrete, and in order to get it just right you need exactly 6 liters.

But you only have a 4-liter and a 9-liter bucket.

How can you do this?

(You have an unlimited supply of water from the hose) Imagine having three bowls, with the following capacities:

In bowl A (8 liters capacity) are 5 liters of water.
In bowl B (5 liters capacity) are 3 liters of water.
In bowl C (3 liters capacity) are 2 liters of water.

Can you measure exactly 1 liter, pouring only 2 times?