Texas Topper


You bought a ten-gallon hat as a souvenir of a visit to Texas; Only when you got home did you discover that the label states it to be only a six-gallon hat. By now, you were skeptical that it was even that big, and you decided to test it by trying to fill it with 6 gallons of water. The only containers you had on hand were those below.

Using them, how were you able to pour 6 gallons into the hat?

container A: 9 gallons
Container A
  container B: 4 gallons
Container B

 

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Last updated October 10th, 2003