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Water-jug puzzle
In the water-jug puzzle, we are given a 3-liter jug, named Three, and a 4-liter jug, named Four. Initially, Three and
Four are empty. Either jug can be filled with water from a tap, T, and we can discard water from either jug down a
drain, D. Water may be poured from one jug into the other. There is no additional measuring device. We want to find
a set of actions that will leave precisely two liters of water in Four.
1. Set up a state-space search formulation of the water-jug puzzle:
(a) Give the initial iconic state description as a data structure.
(b) Give a goal condition on states as some test on data structure.
(c) Name the actions on states and give precise descriptions of what each action does to a state description.
2. Draw a graph of all of the distinct state-space nodes that are within three moves of the start node, label each
node by its state description, and show at least one path to each node in the graph-labeling each arc by the
name of the appropriate action. In addition to these nodes, show also all of the nodes and arcs (properly labeled)
on a path to the solution.