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Mindboggling question

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sirskizalot
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Ok, so this question may blow your minds, or you might figure it out really easily( i think it was on Jay Leno).

You have to buckets:one bucket holds 3liters and one bucket holds 5liters, you have unlimited water, how do you get one of the buckets to hold 4 liters?

Remember: all you have is the 2 buckets and unlimited water (no mesuring tools or anything and it must be exactly 4 liters)

If you figure out the answer right away dont say it yet, wait till thursday or somthing.

GO!

Dec 3 2008 12:07AM
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fsscott
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Dec 3 2008 7:42PM
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Eastcoastskier09
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this is mindbottling
Dec 3 2008 7:44PM
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timmi
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its like when your thoughts get all trapped up....like in a bottle...
Dec 3 2008 7:46PM
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sirskizalot
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we have a winner!!!!
Dec 3 2008 8:24PM
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ParkLife01
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well this is easy but gross .... ur stomaches maximum stretch is 4 liter if u have endless water, drink till u puke ( into the 5 liter bucket) and ull have 4 liters of water

Dec 3 2008 8:32PM
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C.Wood
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this is so hard....

if you want the asnwer watch die hard die with vengence with Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson
Dec 3 2008 8:33PM
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inactive
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modfail: when industrial size fail just doesn't cut it
Dec 3 2008 8:36PM
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Nicholas.
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ohhh yeah i get it haha, thanks for not ridiculing me.
Dec 3 2008 10:31PM
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twin-tip-hero
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HAHA i remember this question on a math test in 7th grade.
Dec 3 2008 10:38PM
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steevner
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thanks mr.philosophy.
It's not how you fill the bucket, it's HOW you fill the bucket...
Dec 3 2008 10:45PM
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C.R.E.A.M
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yeayer easy peezy lemon sqeezy
Dec 3 2008 11:41PM
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TheMoostafian
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fill up the 3L bucket, pour it into the 5L bucket, then do that again but fill the 5L one perfectly full so theres 1L left in the 3L bucket. then empty the 5L bucket, put the 1L in then another 3L
Dec 3 2008 11:55PM
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freezed
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no, i really don't actually.

my apologies. haha.
Dec 4 2008 12:02AM
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CHEEZ--IT
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they're definitely two different words
Dec 4 2008 12:44AM
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