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Part of 1987 Tournament Of Towns

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TOT 134 1987 Spring Train J3 two bottles with water and salt, mix

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4/17/2020
We are given two three-litre bottles, one containing 11 litre of water and the other containing 11 litre of 2%2\% salt solution . One can pour liquids from one bottle to the other and then mix them to obtain solutions of different concentration . Can one obtain a 1.5%1 . 5\% solution of salt in the bottle which originally contained water?
(S . Fomin, Leningrad),
algebra