...Where did the 7-gallon container come from?
I feel very Jack Bauer. You aren't telling us everything! Who are you working for?
Allyson, who is doing the show? Part of my curiosity is because a friend of mine works for a teeny little production company, or did, and it sounds like something they'd do. Although I don't know why I think that.
Fill the 7-gallon, fill the 5-gallon from the 7-gallon, what remains is 2.
Ah. You'd said a 5-gallon and a 10-gallon before. Your 4-gallon is pretty easy with a 5 and 7. Get your 2-gallon as above, then pour it into the (emptied) 5-gallon. Fill the 7-gallon again, and fill the 5-gallon the rest of the way (another 3 gallons). You'll have 4 gallons left in the 7 gallon.
You'd said a 5-gallon and a 10-gallon before.
Did I? Sorry. Also, I was looking for 1 gallon, not 4. It's all set now, except for the working backwards part.
The Allyson N Kristen show! I'd watch!
If memory serves me right, it was a very popular series back on WX before it got cancelled.
I feel very Jack Bauer. You aren't telling us everything! Who are you working for?
HA! Yes, I too was wondering where the 7 gallon bucket came from.
If memory serves me right, it was a very popular series back on WX before it got cancelled.
Allyson left me for a better deal with some other production company.
Do you have a one quart saucepan or pitcher. Fill that up four times.
You guys are all about the thinking outside the box, though, and I value that.
Did I? Sorry. Also, I was looking for 1 gallon, not 4. It's all set now, except for the working backwards part.
Oh, ok. then you fill the 5-gallon three times, and keep emptying it into the 7-gallon.
I'm so tired, I can't really follow the math talk. I just keep picturing Mickey Mouse emptying buckets of water into the big cauldron.
Huh?
Fill 5-g. Empty into 7-g. Fill 5-g again. Fill 7-g from 5-g (takes 2 g), empty 7-g. Pour remaining 3 g from 5-g into 7-g. Fill 5-g again, fill 7-g with 4 g, you're left with 1 g.
General rule: if you need x gallons, find multiples of your two jugs' capacities that are x apart. So for 1 gallon, 3*5 gallons is 15 gallons, and 2*7 gallons is 14 gallons. The difference is your 1 gallon. So three refills of the 5-gallon jug lets you fill the 7-gallon jug twice, and have 1 gallon left over.