Quickly Maria got up and climbed on the stage.
“Hi. How is your name?”
“I’m Maria.”
“Glad to meet you Maria. Now examine the bucket again. Do you still think that there can be twenty liters in it?”
Maria looked at the bucket from the front and from the side and nodded. Dreamy brought a big measuring cap filled with water.
“How much water is in this cup, Maria?”
Maria looked at the cup and saw that the water was at the two litre mark.
“According to you ten of these cups full of water can be poured into the bucket.
Roxanne poured the first cup full of water into the bucket.
“My two lovely assistants will now bring more of these cups. Would you please help me pouring them in?”
“Sure”
“Oh, and I want you to count loudly!”, she said to the audience.
The quick music started and Dreamy and Fantasy brought cup after cup, while Roxanne and Maria poured them into the bucket.
“Eight. Nine. Ten.”, the people counted, but the assistants didn’t stop to bring cups from behind.
“Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen!”