Directions (25-29): Study the information carefully and answer the questions given below.

Seven friends - P, Q, R, S, T, U, and V - went to attend a cooking class for a week from Monday to Sunday, not necessarily in the same order. Each person prepared a different number of dishes during these classes.

Q prepared the most dishes. The person who prepared the least dishes attended immediately after R. S prepared the 2ndmost dishes and attended on Sunday. T and the person who prepared the second-most dishes attended on consecutive days. Q prepared 5 dishes more than T who prepared 6 dishes more than P. P attended the classes immediately after the person who prepared 9 dishes. The person who prepared 10 dishes attended immediately before the person who prepared 8 dishes. Q attended on Wednesday, while V attended on Friday. There were 2 people between R and the person who prepared 6 dishes. Only One person prepared half number of dishes than the other one.

Who attended the cooking class on Thursday?

The correct answer is U.

Let us determine the schedule and the number of dishes prepared by each person day-by-day based on the given clues:

Step 1: Arrange the days of the week
The days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Step 2: Place the persons on their respective days
1. Q attended on Wednesday.
2. V attended on Friday.
3. S attended on Sunday and prepared the 2nd-most dishes.
4. T and the person who prepared the 2nd-most dishes (S) attended on consecutive days. Since S is on Sunday, T must be on Saturday.
5. P attended immediately after the person who prepared 9 dishes. Since Q (Wednesday) is the most dishes, the person on Wednesday cannot have prepared 9 dishes. Thus, P cannot be on Thursday. The only possible position for P to be immediately after a 9-dish person is on Tuesday, meaning the person on Monday prepared 9 dishes.
6. The remaining days are Monday and Thursday. The remaining persons are R and U. Since R is followed immediately by the person with the least dishes, if R were on Thursday, V (Friday) would have the least dishes. But there are 2 people between R and the 6-dish person. If R is on Monday, the 6-dish person is on Thursday. If R is on Thursday, the 6-dish person would be on Sunday (S), which contradicts the fact that S prepared the 2nd-most dishes (greater than T's dishes). Thus, R attended on Monday and U attended on Thursday.

Therefore, the complete schedule of attendance is:
- Monday: R (9 dishes)
- Tuesday: P (least dishes)
- Wednesday: Q (most dishes)
- Thursday: U (6 dishes)
- Friday: V (10 dishes)
- Saturday: T (8 dishes)
- Sunday: S (12 dishes)

This shows that U attended the cooking class on Thursday.