Puzzles/Action sequences/Sharing Milk

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Puzzles | Action sequences | Sharing Milk

You have an 8 liter bucket full of milk and two empty buckets, one with a 5 liter volume and the other with a 3 liter volume. You have no means of measurement other than the buckets themselves, which are not calibrated.

How can you evenly distribute the milk into two portions of precisely 4 liters?

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