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OOT
Link stared hard at his bottle of milk, which sat before him on the table, deep in thought.
"What are you doing?"
The Hero of Time jumped. He looked up and saw Malon watching him. "Oh, nothing," Link replied before going back to his staring contest with the bottle.
Malon rolled her eyes and sat next to her friend, staring at the bottle as well. "What are we looking at?"
"To see if the bottle is sixty-seven percent full."
"You've been hanging out with the Princess Zelda too much, haven't you?"
"What's that have to do with anything?"
"She's supposed to be amazing at mathematics."
"Oh."
The two fell silent for a moment. "Are you sure you didn't drink half of it?" Malon asked.
"Yes." Link pulled out another bottle of milk, this one half way empty, and placed it next to the other one. "This one's half-way full."
"Oh."
They were silent again.
"What if it's one fourth empty?" Link asked. Malon shrugged. Link pulled out two more bottles, both empty. He took the half-full bottle and began carefully measuring it out until both bottles had the same amount. "I need more milk," he stated. Malon stood and hurried out of the room, coming back with another half-bottle of milk. Link added one of the one-fourth-filled bottles to the half-filled bottle and set it next to the original.
"Nope, definitely not three-fourths," Malon said.
"Definitely," Malon agreed. "But it's too much to be perfectly in between one-half and three-fourths."
"So it's got to be sixty-seven percent full."
"I doubt that."
Link sighed. He gathered together some of the milk so that he had one full bottle and two empty ones. Then he carefully measured out milk so that each of the three bottles had an even amount. Then he took two of them and combined them, placing the bottle next to the original.
"There!" he exclaimed.
"That's sixty-seven percent?" Malon asked, noting how both bottles were filled to the same capacity.
"Yup."
"I don't get it."
Link quickly explained what he had done. "Two-thirds is sixty seven percent!" he finished.
"Oh."
For a moment, they were quiet once more. "Want some milk, Malon?" Link asked.