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Mark bought a cluster of bananas from a market.He gave Patrick a half of it.He ate one and he had 8 bananas to take home.How many bananas were on the cluster?

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There were eighteen bananas in the cluster, the half of it would be 9 then he ate 1, and took 8 home so the total cluster bananas he bought from the market was 18.
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BANANA FRUITS GROW IN PENDULOUS CLUSTERS, WITH UP TO 20 FRUITS PER ROW AND 3-20 BANANAS PER ROW. THE ENTIRE HANGING GROPU OF BANANAS IS CALLED BUNCH. AND MARK CAN HAVE 9 BANANAS BECAUSE HE ATE ONE BANANA FROM HIS BUNCH AND HE DIDN'T HAVE THE HALF BANANA HE GAVE TO PATRICK.
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Mark bought a cluster of bananas from a market.He gave Patrick a half of it.He ate one and he had 8 bananas to take home. There were 16 bananas on the cluster.

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A cluster is known as bunch or stalk. It consists of 3 to 20 Bananas. 

So the Mark has bought 18, out of which he ate 1, gave gave half to Patricia, and he left with 8.

Now one condition is he can gave Patricia only half of 1, then he had 10, now 8 he has, one he ate, and half he doesn't  carry.
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so the cluster of bananas are equally divided between them as mark ate one of the banana as has 8 banana's with him left . therfore number  of banana's with mark is 9 and since the banana's were equally  divided . so there were 18 banana's in the cluster
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While solving this question we have to go from the task done in reverese manner

As mark ate 1, if he didn't eat it he would have 8+1= 9 bananas with him

And if he didn't give half of cluster to patrick,he would have double the amount he had right now that is 9×2=18 

So the cluster should contain =18 bananas
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There were 16 bananas on the cluster. Mark gave Patrick half of the cluster, which was 8 bananas. He then ate one, leaving him with 8 bananas to take home.
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