SOLUTION: How can you bring up from the river exactly 6 litres of water when you have only two containers, a four litre container and a nine litre container, with which to measure?

SOLUTION: How can you bring up from the river exactly 6 litres of water when you have only two containers, a four litre container and a nine litre container, with which to measure?

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Question 868432: How can you bring up from the river exactly 6 litres of water when you have only two containers, a four litre container and a nine litre container, with which to measure?
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
take 6 times from the 4 liter container and pour it in a tank
then empty twice from 9 liter container

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