Solution:

Fill the 3 quart bucket (5 quart bucket has 0 quarts and 3 quart bucket has 3 quarts)

Pour it entirely in the 5 quart bucket (5 quart bucket has 3 quarts and 3 quart bucket has 0 quarts)

Fill the 3 quart bucket (5 quart bucket has 3 quarts and 3 quart bucket has 3 quarts)

Pour the contents to fill the 5 quart bucket (5 quart bucket has 5 quarts and 3 quart bucket has 1 quart)

Empty down the 5 quart bucket (5 quart bucket has 0 quarts and 3 quart bucket has 1 quart)

Pour the water from 1 quart bucket to 5 quart bucket (5 quart bucket has 1 quart and 3 quart bucket has 0 quart)

Fill the 3 quart bucket (5 quart bucket has 1 quart and 3 quart bucket has 3 quarts)

Pour the contents from 3 quart bucket to 5 quart bucket (5 quart bucket has 4 quarts and 3 quart bucket has 0 quarts)

We are done and it took us eight steps to measure exactly 4 quarts of water.

Solution:

18 Hours

Solution:

If you are thinking of how to cut in such a way that you are able to make seven equal pieces, you are thinking in the wrong direction. You should give more stress on how to make the transaction with the worker.

You have to break the gold bar two times so you have the following sizes of the bar:

1/7 ---- Bar A
2/7 ---- Bar B
4/7 ---- Bar C

When the day 1 ends:
Give Bar A (You remain with Bar B and Bar C; Worker possess - Bar A)

When the day 2 ends:
Give Bar B and take the Bar A back (You remain with Bar A and Bar C; Worker possess - Bar B)

When the day 3 ends:
Give Bar A (You remain with Bar C; Worker possess - Bar A and Bar B)

When the day 4 ends:
Give Bar C and take back Bar A and Bar B (You remain with Bar A and Bar B; Worker possess - Bar C)

When the day 5 ends:
Give Bar A (You remain with Bar B; Worker possess - Bar A and Bar C)

When the day 6 ends:
Give Bar B and take back Bar A (You remain with Bar A; Worker possess - Bar B and Bar C)

When the day 7 ends:
Give Bar A (You remain with no bar; Worker possess - Bar A, Bar B and Bar C)

Thus by the end of seven days, you have taken care of everything.

Solution:

The question can practically disarm you. But we promise by the time you read the solution, you will find that it was way easy than you were thinking.

Let us name the boxes with a number - Box1, Box 2..., Box10. Now you must be familiar with the weights of the balls precisely. By saying that we are not implying that you will have to take one ball from every box and judge the weight of every ball.

What you have to do is pick one ball from Box 1, 2 balls from Box 2, 3 balls from Box 3, ...., 10 balls from Box 10. Thus after taking balls from every box in such a manner, you will finally have 55 balls in total. There comes the time to use the weighing machine.

If all the balls were weighing adequate, the combined weight should be 55 x 10 grams = 550 grams. But since one of the box has defected balls, the weight will be less than that. Here is the tricky part and explains why we took different number of balls from each box.

If the total weight is less than 1 gram, then the defective box is the Box 1 since we took 1 ball from that box. If the Box 2 is defective, the total weight will be less than 2 grams. In similar fashion you can identify the defective box by analyzing the total weight that is calculated by the weighing machine.

Solution:

You can do it by two methods. However, we are explaining only one and leaving one for you to figure out yourself.

What you will do is fill the 3 liters jar and pour it into the 5 liters jar. Fill the 3 liters jar again and pour it into the 5 liters jar till it's full. Now we know that the 5 liters jar was already having 3 liters of water, thus you would be able to fill 2 liters only. In that case, the 3 liters jar will be left with 1 liter water. Empty the 5 liters jar and then pour the remaining 1 liter from 3 liters jar to the 5 liters jar. Refill the 3 liters jar and pour it completely into the 5 liters jar which already had 1 liter water. Thus now the 5 liters jar have 4 liters of water.