SOLUTION: Kyle has a summer job cleaning pools. He needs to measure exact amounts of chlorine but has only a 10-liter bucket and a 7-liter bucket. Assuming an unlimted supply of chlorine, de

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Question 51921: Kyle has a summer job cleaning pools. He needs to measure exact amounts of chlorine but has only a 10-liter bucket and a 7-liter bucket. Assuming an unlimted supply of chlorine, describe a procedure that will give exactly 4 liters of chlorine in the 10-liter bucket.
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fill the 7 liter bucket and pour it into the 10 liter bucket. now refill the 7 liter bucket and from this bucket complete filling the 10 liter bucket with 3 liters. he now has exactly 4 liters left in the 7 liter bucket.