document.write( "Question 787850: Two hikers come to a fork in the trail and want to take different paths. They need to divide their water supply evenly. The water completely fills an 8-liter jug with no markings on it. They also have two empty, smaller unmarked jugs—one holds 5 liters and the other holds 3. How can they divide the water evenly so each one has exactly 4 liters for the rest of the hike? \n" ); document.write( "

Algebra.Com's Answer #478339 by solver91311(24713) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "                                 Capacities\r\n" );
document.write( "                                 8L    5L    3L\r\n" );
document.write( "Step                             Quantities\r\n" );
document.write( "At start                         8     0     0\r\n" );
document.write( "Fill 3L bucket from 8L bucket    5     0     3\r\n" );
document.write( "Empty 3L bucket into 5L bucket   5     3     0       \r\n" );
document.write( "Fill 3L bucket from 8L bucket    2     3     3       \r\n" );
document.write( "Fill 5L bucket from 3L bucket    2     5     1       \r\n" );
document.write( "Empty 5L bucket into 8L bucket   7     0     1       \r\n" );
document.write( "Empty 3L bucket into 5L bucket   7     1     0       \r\n" );
document.write( "Fill 3L bucket from 8L bucket    4     1     3\r\n" );
document.write( "Empty 3L bucket into 5L bucket   4     4     0\r\n" );
document.write( "Done\r\n" );
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