What is the quickest way to time a 9 minute cooking session with two sand-glasses of 4 and 7 minutes respectively?
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Tell your cook to do it 🙂
At Time=0
Start both 4 & 7 Timer
At Time= 4
Restart The (4 min.) Timer
At Time = 7
Restart The (7 Min.) Timer
** Begin The Cooking
At Time = 8
(When The 7 Min. timer run out)
restart the 4 min. timer
At time= 12
restart the 4 min. timer
So : the cooking time = 1 + 4+ 4 = 9 min.
Good job everyone,
Here is my solution. It is fairly similar to some of yours.
Start both timers simultaneously, then turn the 4 minute one over as soon as it runs out. Then when the 7 minute timer runs out, turn it over. When the 4 minute timer runs out for the second time, turn over the 7 minute timer which has been running for 1 minute, and when it runs out, hey presto 9 minutes have elapsed.
Thanks.
Ken.