The scale has 4 bananas on it. Each banana weighs the same amount.
If Molly wants to buy a total of 5 pounds of bananas, how many more bananas does she need to add to the scale?
Each banana weighs 2 pounds
Wow! Those are heavy bananas!
Your question does not make any sense.
To figure out how many more bananas Molly needs to add to the scale, we first need to determine the weight of the bananas already on the scale. We know that there are 4 bananas, and each banana weighs 2 pounds. So, the total weight of the bananas on the scale is 4 bananas * 2 pounds per banana = 8 pounds.
Now, we can calculate how many more pounds of bananas Molly needs to reach a total of 5 pounds. She already has 8 pounds on the scale, and she wants a total of 5 pounds, so the difference is 8 pounds - 5 pounds = 3 pounds.
Since each banana weighs 2 pounds, we can find out how many more bananas Molly needs by dividing the remaining weight (3 pounds) by the weight of each banana (2 pounds).
3 pounds / 2 pounds per banana = 1.5 bananas
Since we can't have half a banana, Molly would need to add 2 more bananas to the scale in order to reach a total weight of 5 pounds.