# Can you measure exactly 1 liter, by transferring the water only 2 times?

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Given three bowls: bowl A (8 liters capacity) filled with 5 liters of water; bowl B (5 liters capacity) filled with 3 liters of water; and bowl C (3 liters capacity) filled with 2 liters of water.
Can you measure exactly 1 liter, by transferring the water only 2 times?

posted Nov 7, 2014

## 1 Solution

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First transfer A bowl water to C and then C becomes full of 3 liter again from C to B (B have reaming capacity 2 liter). So in in C only 1 liter will left.

solution Nov 7, 2014

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