Braingle: 'Jamming It Up' Brain Teaser

Jamming It Up

Logic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.

Puzzle ID:	#9785
Fun:	(2.16)
Difficulty:	(1.27)
Category:	Logic
Submitted By:	lesternoronha1

Mary was making apricot jam. She put all the apricots in the pot and stirred them up. Then she remembered she had to add 1 ounce of lemon juice for every two apricots. How did she figure out how much lemon juice to put?

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Comments

SourGir1986 Jan 29, 2003	This one was easy... but good!
gooblah Feb 17, 2003	I figured she could weigh the pot, then then an apricot(most would have similar weight), then weigh the jar etc etc, but I didn't know they had pits, kudos to mary for not doing it my way ;P
penial Feb 24, 2003	Good,butI must be slow cause i couldn't get it
tangerine Feb 28, 2003	Cute n.n; ... but there could have been countless other ways she knew, eh? like maybe she knew how many apricots she had put in Oo; .... clever, eh? im canadian, eh? :\| -tangerine-
jimbo Feb 28, 2003	lucky they weren't dried apricots eh?
Sunrose Sep 17, 2005	Easy, and fun. Nice Job