This is the answer to last week’s Problem of the Week:
- Fill the 5.2 gallon bottle.
- Poor 4 gallons from the 5.2 bottle into to 4 gallon bottle, leaving 1.2 gallons in the 5.2 gallon bottle.
- Empty the 4 gallon bottle.
- Poor the remaining 1.2 gallons into the 4 gallon bottle.
- Fill the 5.2 gallon bottle.
- Poor 2.8 gallons from the 5.2 gallon bottle into the 4 gallon bottle, leaving 2.4 gallons in the the 5.2 gallon bottle.
- Put the 5.2 gallon bottle on the scale to diffuse the bomb.
As you may remember, a similar problem to this was in the movie Die Hard 3.
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