You are camping, and have an 8-liter bowl which is full of fresh water.
You need to share this water fairly into exactly two portions (4 + 4 liters).
But you only have two empty bowls: a 5-liter and a 3-liter bowl.
Divide the 8 liters in half in as short a time as possible.
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You have three bowls: 7, 4 and 3 liters in capacity.
Only the 7-liter is full.
Pour the fewest times to have the bowls containing 2, 2 and 3 liters.
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If I drive half-way to the city at 30 km/hour, how fast do I have to go for the rest of the way to make the average speed for the entire journey of 60 km/hour?
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Long-haired Mary Jones works for the Milk Marketing Board. Hairy Mary At The Dairy they call her. That's not very nice, is it? Anyway, Mary likes to eat her dinner by candlelight every evening. She saves all the candle ends because when she has collected seven ends, she can melt them down to make a new candle.At the last count she found that she had 34 candles and 50 candle ends. One candle burns down in one evening. For how many evenings can Mary have a candlelit dinner before she has to buy more candles?Clue: look at the title again!
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