Question

The turkeys, Quincy, Lucy, Prudence and John, are making a pumpkin pie and each add a different ingredient. When the pie is finished, there is 1/4 cinnamon left, 1/3 of nutmeg, 1/2 of ginger and 5/8 of pumpkin left. Quincy used the most. Lucy used the least. Prudence used more than John. Who used the ginger?

Answer 1

Prudence

Explanation:

Answer 2

John used the ginger.

Explanation:

Consider the provided information.

When the pie is finished, there is 1/4 cinnamon left, 1/3 of nutmeg, 1/2 of ginger and 5/8 of pumpkin left.

First arrange the them in increasing order.

`(1)/(4)< (1)/(3)< (1)/(2)< (5)/(8)`

It is given that Quincy used the most ingredient, that means Quincy left with least amount of ingredients. The least number among them is 1/4 which is cinnamon.

So Quincy used cinnamon.

It is given that Lucy used the least ingredient, that means most of the her ingredients were left which is pumpkin i.e 5/8

So Lucy used pumpkin.

It is given that Prudence used more ingredient than John, that means Prudence left with the less ingredients as compare to John which is nutmeg i.e 1/3

Thus, Prudence used nutmeg.

Hence, John used the ginger.