can you please show me how to solve this?

Question

•So Morris was looking forward to drinking 12 cups of root beer from his large mug.  Then Seymour showed up and morris felt like he should share his root beer.  He found an 8 cup glass and a 5 cup glass. he had divided the root beer into two exactly equal portions so he and Seymour could enjoy  it. How did he do it?

 

they could only use the three glasses to measure the amount of root beer and they both need to have 6 cups of soda in the end

Answer 1

Here's one solution. There may be more.

 

12        8        5             the containers

 

12        0        0             to begin with

4          8        0             fill up the 8 from the 12

4          3        5             fill up the 5 from the 8

9          3        0             empty the 5 into the 12 which had 4 and now has 9

9          0        3             take the 3 from the 8 and put it into the 5

1          8        3             fill up the 8 from the 12 which contained 9 but now contains 1

1          6        5             fill up the 5 from the 8 leaving 6 left in the 8

6          6        0             put the 5 in the 5 container into the 12 container which had 1 in it