You have 5 liter jug, 11 liter jug, 13 liter jug and 24 liter jug. 24 liter jug have full of water.

Your goal is finally the 11 liter, 13 liter jug and 24 liter contains 8 liter waters and 5 liter jug contains no water. You have only 24 liter water and you are not getting more water from any other resources.

How can you fill the water?

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suresh

(5 , 11 , 13 , 24) ======>>>>>
======>>>>>(0 , 0 , 0 , 24) ======>>>>>(0 , 11 , 13 , 0) ======>>>>>(5 , 6 , 13 , 0)======>>>>> (5 , 0 , 13 , 6) ======>>>>>(5 , 11 , 2 , 6) ======>>>>>(5 , 11 , 0 , 8) ======>>>>>(5 , 0 , 11 , 8) ======>>>>>(0 , 3 , 13 , 8)======>>>>>(5 , 3 , 8 , 8) ======>>>>>(0 , 8 , 8 , 8)

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Cheers,
:) James:)

James you are correct...but you are using 10 steps to acheive the result.

Find the minimum number of steps to reach the goal. 10 is not a minimum.


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suresh

24lit 13 lit 11lit 5 lit
24 0 0 0
0 13 11 0
0 8 11 5
8 8 3 5
8 8 8

Total 4 steps

Your answer is...

24lit 13 lit 11lit 5 lit
24 0 0 0
0 13 11 0
0 8 11 5
8 8 3 5
8 8 8

1. You are not using 4 steps...Because you are combined these (11 13 0 0 and 0 13 11 0 ) into one step (0 13 11 0).

2. Your answer is wrong.

Explanation....

Look at this step. (0 8 11 5). From this step you are acheiving the next step (8,8,3,5). How you change exactly 8 liter water from 11 liter jug to 24 liter jug ?

Find the correct one...

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suresh

Answer

A=24L B=13L C=11L D=5L


A B C D
24 0 0 0
13 0 11 0
8 0 11 5
8 5 11 0
8 13 3 0
8 8 3 5
8 8 8 0

Thanks
Manoj

Well answered Manoj. Thought of replying to this thread, but finally decided against it as I have limited time and better threads to answer to (That doesn't mean this thread is no good. No. It is just that other threads had higher priority). Now, that I do have time, I will explain the logic to solve these kind of problems.

A general thumb rule for this kind of problems is, try to get the required amount of water in the largest first.
In this case we need to get 8 lts of water in 24 ltr Jug.
it will be (24-11-5)=8. Simple as that.

Next we need to get 8lt in 13lt jug.
It will be , (13-5)=8.

The third gets filled automatically. Thjis is the general way of solving for any puzzle of this kind.

Enjoy!

Cheers!
-Kalayama

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