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[crisdean]

[RMNC]

I'm not really going to think it through but I'll guess that there is more wine in the water jug than water in the wine jug. If it's not a pure teaspoon of water then the pure teaspoon of wine is "greater", ergo my answer.

Alternatively I could imagine the answer being "neither" due to the dissolution of the wine, but the original question never said anything about that, and I don't want to think that hard right now.

[interestedinhanguk]

[silkhighway]

[interestedinhanguk]

The jug will overflow if is a 1 liter jug with 1 liter of liquid and you add a teaspoon to it .

[RMNC]

I was going to post that, but I assumed that the jugs were not exactly level with the top of the jug, since that would be weird. And it's not like the wine wouldn't mix in some small fashion even if it "didn't fit", as he says he mixes it in with the water jug. I need to know if any or all of the wine would have not mixed in, in that case, and whether the jug "holds 1L" or is "exactly 1L with 1L of water/wine in it"

[crisdean]

[silkhighway]

[cyui]

1,000,000,000,000/

not divisible by 1 ( makes a circle around and around)

[interestedinhanguk]

Left to right (in reference to the original question).

[Underwaterbob]

I think the question becomes: where do we draw the line between water and wine? A significant part of wine is water. The question is unanswerable without a huge philosophical debate on the nature of wine, hopefully during which we consume a great deal of it.

[machinoman]

since the jugs are 1 L but there is "room to stir" and "no wasted liquid" let us assume there is one tablespoon of liquid in each jug.


jug 1: 1wi ||| jug 2: 1wa

take one tablespoon from jug 1, put it in jug 2

nothing ||| 2((1/2)wa (1/2)wi)

now take one tablespoon from jug 2, put it in jug 1

(1/2)wa + (1/2)wi ||| (1/2)wa + (1/2) wi

hence there is the same amount of water in the wine jug as wine in the water jug

tadaaaaaaaa *shakes hands in the air like he just performed a backflip*

[Hugo85]

Who is organizing the swap? If it's Jesus then it might be a trap.

[silkhighway]

I guess I failed on this one..maybe I didn't explain it right. Yes, it's true that there is an exact equal amount of wine in the water jug as there is water in the wine jug, but most people when you tell this problem including people who are good at math (perhaps especially!) automatically assume that there is more wine in the water jug than vice versa until they grind through the algebra.

This brings me to my next point. Machinoman, you got the right answer but your algebra is wrong, you made two assumptions you can't make. One's not a big deal, but the other one is.

[silkhighway]