April Question: 
Four students won a day trip to an amusement park. While there, each got a chance to ride his or her favorite ride. They also won a coupon for one free snack at the park. Use the clues to match the student with his or her favorite ride and snack.

     1. Abby and her best friend decided to buy their favorite salty snack foods while another person rode the Drop of Doom.
     2. The person riding the bumper cars knew he had better move fast.
     3. Craig and Diane had never met Abby before this trip.
     4. Diane shared her sweet snack with a boy eating pretzels.
     5. Since Craig doesn't like rides, he spent most of his time eating his frozen lemonade.

Answer:  
This is a great logical reasoning problem. It may be helpful to create a chart to organize the data and match clues.

Students Rides Snacks
  No 
ride		 All Wet Water Slide Bumper Cars

Drop of Doom

 Elephant Ears Pretzel Nachos Frozen Lemonade
  Abby X yes X X X X yes X
  Ben X X yes X X yes X X
  Craig yes X X X X X X yes
  Diane X X X yes yes X X X

Depending on how the clues are used, you might complete your chart in a different order. Regardless, your answer should be the same.

Clue 1 lets us eliminate Abby from Drop of Doom and sweet snacks (elephant ears, frozen lemonade). We also know her friend wouldn't like these either, but we don't know her friend yet.

Clue 2 tells us that the person riding the bumper cars was a boy (HE must think fast). We can eliminate Abby and Diane.

Clue 3 may not seem helpful at first, but it does tell us that Craig and Diane did not know Abby before the trip. Therefore, Abby and Ben must be best friends. So, Ben wouldn't like sweets or the Drop of Doom (from clue 1).

Clue 4 tells us that Diane had a sweet snack and she shared with a boy eating pretzels. We can eliminate salty foods from Diane and Abby. As a result, we see that Abby's only available snack food is nachos. When we give this to her, it gives pretzels to Ben, the only snack food for him.

Clue 5 is packed with information because Craig doesn't like rides and he is eating frozen lemonade. These automatically go to him and no one else can have them. We can now fill in the gaps.