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Gabriel wants to fill up a large empty vase which can contain 10 liters of water. His robot is programmed to repeatedly fill a 1 liter water bottle, and empty the entire contents into the vase. Gabriel decides to program the robot to stop when the vase contains exactly 8 liters of water. What will happen?

The vase will be filled with exactly 10 liters of water The vase will overflow The vase will be filled with exactly 8 liters of water The vase will be filled with exactly 1 liters of water

Calvin Lin by Calvin Lin

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Calvin Lin Staff
Jul 2, 2014

The robot will repeatedly fill the vase till there are 8 liters of water. At which point, the program will terminate.

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Problem could be made more interesting by adding something like this: Robot fills the bottle and then checks the amount of water in the vase. What will happen? Answer: Vase will contain exactly 8 litres of water and bottle will be filled. Other choices could be: Vase will contain 9 litres of water and bottle will be empty, Vase will contain 7 litres of water and water will be filled etc

Snehal Shekatkar - 6 years, 11 months ago

it seems make me confused sometimes..................

Dony Chrisdianto - 6 years, 10 months ago

The question said that the entire contents are emptied in the vase. Doesn't that mean that the bottle is also thrown in it?

Debmeet Banerjee - 5 years, 5 months ago

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