You only have these three containers, all irregular in their shape (though it doesn´t appear in the simplified drawing below), with no marks in them, and all that you know is the capacity of each one.

The 3-liter is empty, the 5-liter is full of 50ºC water, and the 6-liter is full of 90ºC water.

                                  |/////|
                      |/////|     |/////|
                      |/////|     |/90º/|
          |     |     |/50º/|     |/////|
          |     |     |/////|     |/////|
          |     |     |/////|     |/////|
          +-----+     +-----+     +-----+
           3-lit       5-lit       6-lit

With a succession of moves, how do you get some water at 76ºC? At 75ºC?

How many different integral temperatures, from 50ºC to 90ºC, can you get?

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