Mathematics

Jair Spears

23 April, 07:45

John purchased a toy for his young daughter. The toy included nine colorful plastic pieces in the shape of the numbers from 1 to 9. In examining these pieces he made the following observations One piece is purple and two pieces each are red, green, yellow, and blue. The two red pieces are consecutive numbers. The number 4 is greern. The two blue pieces are not consecutive numbers Both the 1 and the 9 are yellow The purple piece is not a number immediately greater than or less than either green piece If one of the red pieces is the number 3, what number is the other red piece?

A. 2

B. 4

C. 5

D. 6

E. 7