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Two Water Jug problem [MEDIUM]

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Question:
You are at the side of a river. You are given a m litre jug and a n litre jug where 0 < m < n. Both the jugs are initially empty. The jugs don’t have markings to allow measuring smaller quantities. You have to use the jugs to measure d litres of water where d < n. Determine the minimum no of operations to be performed to obtain d litres of water in one of jug.
The operations you can perform are:
  1. Empty a Jug
  2. Fill a Jug
  3. Pour water from one jug to the other until one of the jugs is either empty or full.
Input:
First line consists of T test cases. Only line of every test case consists of 3 spaced integers denoting m , n, and d respectively. 
Output:
Single line output, print the minimum number of operations.
Constraints:
1<=T<=100
1<=N,D<=100
1<=M<=N
Example:
Input:

2
8 56 46
3 5 4
Output:
-1
6
Code:
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.io.*;

class GFG {
public static void main (String[] args) {
Scanner sc = new Scanner (System.in);
int test_cases= sc.nextInt();
for(int t=0;t<test_cases;t++){
   int m=sc.nextInt();
   int n=sc.nextInt();
   int d=sc.nextInt();
   System.out.println(minsteps(m,n,d));
}
}
public static int minsteps(int m,int n,int d  ){
 
   if(d>n){
       return -1;
   }
   if ((d % gcd(n,m)) != 0)
        {return -1;}
   return Math.min(pour(m,n,d),pour(n,m,d));
}
public static int pour(int fromCap, int toCap, int d){
   int from = fromCap;
    int to = 0;

    // Initialize count of steps required
    int step = 1; // Needed to fill "from" Jug

    // Break the loop when either of the two
    // jugs has d litre water
    while (from != d && to != d)
    {
        // Find the maximum amount that can be
        // poured
        int temp = Math.min(from, toCap - to);

        // Pour "temp" litres from "from" to "to"
        to   += temp;
        from -= temp;

        // Increment count of steps
        step++;

        if (from == d || to == d)
            break;

        // If first jug becomes empty, fill it
        if (from == 0)
        {
            from = fromCap;
            step++;
        }

        // If second jug becomes full, empty it
        if (to == toCap)
        {
            to = 0;
            step++;
        }
    }
    return step;
}

public static int gcd(int a,int b){
   if(b==0){
       return a;
   }
   return gcd(b,a%b);
}
}
Execution Time: 0.08 secs

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