[JakeBlues]

Coolmcoolieo Wrote:

McCule Wrote:Microsoft Interview Question Example No.2:
If you had a bucket that holds 5 gallons of water and a bucket that holds 3 gallons of water, how could you accurately determine exactly 4 gallons of water?

1/2 of 5 gallon and 1/2 of 3 gallon= 4 gallons

Can't be precise just like that. The Die Hard way is the way.

[Guest]

Fill up the three and dump it in the five. Fill up the three again and dump what you can in the five leaving 1 gallon in the three. Dump out the five and pour the 1 gallon from the three in the five. Fill up the three again and dump it in the five. There's now 4 gallons in the five.

[Guest]

yah bruce willis and samuel l jackson already showed us how to do this

[Guest]

You could also fill up the five and dump it in the three leaving 2 gallons in the five. Then dump out the three and put the two gallons from the five into the three. Then there's 1 gallon of empty space in the three. Fill up the five and dump one gallon into the three leaving 4 gallons in the five.

[Guest]

just add the three and five...weigh...divide by 2.

so hard

[Guest]

under the circumstances of Die Hard 3, if you tried it like that playajam you would be dead. As soon as you weighed the 8 gallons the bomb would have blown up.

[Guest]

no one said anything about a bomb...regardless, i think a gallon of water weighs 8 lbs. so, 32 lbs. booyah

[Guest]

ok again i dont think you understand what im saying. every way you have said to solve the riddle is wrong. you dont have a scale. whats the point of a riddle like that if you can just put it on a scale and weigh it?
the difficult part is doing it WITHOUT a scale. knowing a gallon of water weighs 8 lbs means nothing.

you would have to do it one of ghostriders way to be exact, with out a scale.

[Guest]

i guess i really didn't care enough to actually read the question. these questions are silly...there are scales in the real world. no need to find convoluted solutions to simple questions

[Guest]

what baffles me is that you've never seen die hard 3!