Ripley's Believe It or Not - Saturday March 10, 2007 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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When Luis Carlos De Noronha Cabral Da Camara of Portugal wrote his well, he named 70 strangers as heirs, all selected at random from the Lisbon phone book! Sailing through the Tonga Archipelago in August 2006, the crew of the yacht Maiken witnessed the birth of a new island- volcanic action pushed land slowly above sea level right before their eyes! Q: 3 buckets have a capacity of 8 leaders, 5 liters and 3 liters, but no volume markings. The first bucket is filled to capacity, and the goal is to evenly divide the water between two buckets (4 liters each) Since the only way to do the job accurately is to completely fill an empty buckets, what is the least number of pours that would equally divide the water? A: The least number of pours to divide 8 liters of water among two buckets, when you have a 8, a 5 and a 3 liter bucket, is 7 pours. I give up

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