Answer:
30 ants are in the ant farm.
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If there are 40 ants on the second part of the scale,
multiply 5 by 8 to get 40 because there are 5 ants for each row, and 8 rows total
and there are 10 ants visible on the first side of the scale, the second part of the scale would have the majority and there would be a big inbalance. To fix that, we could say there are 30 ants in the ant farm, because there are 10 ants on the scale. [tex]10 + 30 = 40[/tex], so that would make the scale balanced.
