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Measure Exactly Four Gallons

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You have two buckets. One holds exactly five gallons and the other three gallons. How can you measure exactly four gallons of water into the five gallon bucket? Assume you have an unlimited supply of water and that there are no measurement markings of any kind on the buckets.