Another Puzzle: Water & Wine

[CcL]

There are 2 glasses on the table. One contains water, the other one wine. They both contain exactly the same amount by volume. If you take a teaspoon of water and mix it into the wine and then take a teaspoon from the wine glass and mix it in with the water, both glasses become contaminated. But which is more contaminated? Does the water now contain more wine than the wine does water? Or the other way around?

Those who KNOWS the answer already, :mouth_closed: .. Lets see who can get it...

 

[rorytate]

suppose the Wine get diluted?

 

[zephyr3d]

i believe u can't see much differences in that cup of wine... hmm... maybe the cup of water may look alittle more tainted?

 

[ka_ren]

water gets contaminated while wine gets diluted?
??

 

[si|verfish]

The wine is more contaminated.

 

[Duke Red]

what is the rationale then? does it have to do with oxidisation or something? Density? ??

 

[rorytate]

agree with red,

color wise, the wine wont look much different, the water will be tainted bit if it's red and not much if it's white wine.

any idea???

Karen, water get contaminated?? why say so? care to share

 

[si|verfish]

what is the rationale then? does it have to do with oxidisation or something? Density? ??

I'm guessing it is just a play of words.

If you take a teaspoon of water and mix it into the wine and then take a teaspoon from the wine glass and mix it in with the water, both glasses become contaminated.

My interpretation is, that a teaspoon of water was transfered into the wine. But only the teaspoon was transfered from the wine glass over to the water glass. Therefore, contamination of the wine is far greater.

Just a wild guess.

 

[zephyr3d]

erm... u have a point there........

 

[Duke Red]

I'm guessing it is just a play of words.


My interpretation is, that a teaspoon of water was transfered into the wine. But only the teaspoon was transfered from the wine glass over to the water glass. Therefore, contamination of the wine is far greater.

Just a wild guess.

Good point.

 

[simonchangwaimun]

i got confuse
the wine is contaminated
coz water contains bacteria

 

[zephyr3d]

i got confuse
the wine is contaminated
coz water contains bacteria

hahahaha.... dude.. u're definitely confused.. lets not get to scientific...

 

[BlackSamurai]

any chemical engineer here?

 

[rorytate]

if the drinks are meant for drinking, i'll gallop them down anyway....

is he referring to 2 groups of friend?

 

[si|verfish]

i got confuse
the wine is contaminated
coz water contains bacteria

Contamination does not necessarily mean that it is dirty or contains polutants or microorganisms. The meaning used here is in the context of the liquid being in an "impure" state or less pure than in its original state.

 

[rollakid]

lets count abit :D

water = 100ml
wine = 100ml

teaspoon = 5ml

5ml of water goes into wine -> total 105ml, with 95.238095% purity of wine.

5ml of contaminated/deluted wine contains 4.7619047ml of wine AND 0.2380953ml of water

so..

it would be like adding 4.7619047ml of wine into 95.2380953ml of water -> basically 95.2380953% purity of water..

so..
wine purity - 95.238095%
water purity - 95.2380953%

conclusion: its either my calculator doesn't have enough space, or we can conclude that the water is 0.000003% more pure than the wine, so the wine would be more contaminated

 

[CcL]

lol
rollakid.... good one good one....
actually. if you get an accurate calculator, it's supposed to be of equal contamination.

contamination in this case refers to the impurity of the substance. don't think so far until wine contains water. so wine is already contaminated originally, bla bla... :P

 

[boggysv]

rollakid, lets make life easier

initial volume:300ml per glass

take out 100ml of water to put into wine

you are left with 200ml of pure water in the water glass,
and 400ml of 3:1 wine/water mixture in the other (i.e. 75% purity)

now, take 100ml from that mixture (i.e. 75ml wine and 25ml water) to return to the water glass.
you are left with (300-75)ml of wine, and (100-25)ml of water in your wine glass

final result: in water glass (75ml wine and 225ml water)
in wine glass (225ml wine, 75 water). they are equal.

 

[devil]

drink both cups into perut....go and pee.. ur pee is definately contaminated..

Sorry .. can't help .. alkoholic .. wahahaha ....

 

[rorytate]

same here devil, it's what i gonna do

save thge story save the brain energy.... LOL