Three fruits

Quince, quonce and quance are three types of fruit. Can you work out the order of heaviness of the fruits?

Problem



Quince, quonce, and quance are three types of fruit.

7 quince weigh the same as 4 quance.

5 quance weigh the same as 6 quonce.

          

Put the fruit into order of weight, heaviest last.

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