SOLUTION: You have 3 gallon container of salt solution and a 5 gallon container of a salt solution. You need to measure out exactly seven galloons of salt solution. How can you do it?
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Question 807799: You have 3 gallon container of salt solution and a 5 gallon container of a salt solution. You need to measure out exactly seven galloons of salt solution. How can you do it? Answer by richwmiller(17219) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! fill the 5 gallon container
Pour that into the 3 gallon container
you now have 2 gallon
empty the 3 gallon container.
empty the 5 gallon container into the three gallon container
filler the 5 gallon container
You now have 2 gallons and 5 gallons which totals 7 gallons.
