You are in a cookie factory and need to make huge batch of chocolate chip cookies The recipe calls for exactly 4 cups sugar Problem is that you have two buckets One 5 the other 3?

To measure exactly 4 cups of sugar using a 5 cups bucket and a 3 cups bucket follow these steps

1. Fill the 5 cups bucket.

2. Fill the 3 cups bucket from the 5cups bucket

3. Empty the 3 cups bucket.

4. Fill the 5 cups bucket again

5. Fill the 3cups bucket from the 5 cups bucket

6. This leaves 4 cups in the 5 cups bucket which is needed in the recipe