Bill makes leather shoes. He charges $45 for a pair of women's shoes and $50 for a pair of men's shoes. He sells x pairs of wome
n’s shoes and y pairs of men’s shoes each week and earns a total income of $2,500. This situation can be represented by the equation . If Bill has no female customers during a particular week, he needs to sell pairs of men’s shoes to earn his weekly income of $2,500.
You save ⅓ of entry fee, so you save 1.20 and you pay 2.40. We only really care about the 1.20 reduction. 5 / 1.2 = 4.16 so he must go 5 times to get the 5 back