Javier designs leather shoes in his workshop. He charges $45 for women's shoes and $50 for mens shoes. He needs to make $2,500 per week to meet his expenses. This situation can be given by 45 X plus 50 y equals 2500, where X is the number of women shoes and y is the number of mens shoes designed. If he does not have any female customers during a particular week, how many male customers does he need to meet his expenses? (X > or equal to 0, y > or equal to 0, and y take only integer values)

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Jenna Mclean

5 January, 20:53

Javier designs leather shoes in his workshop. He charges $45 for women's shoes and $50 for mens shoes. He needs to make $2,500 per week to meet his expenses. This situation can be given by 45 X plus 50 y equals 2500, where X is the number of women shoes and y is the number of mens shoes designed. If he does not have any female customers during a particular week, how many male customers does he need to meet his expenses? (X > or equal to 0, y > or equal to 0, and y take only integer values)

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Kolton · Answer 1

For the second case, the amount that Javier needs to meet his expenses is the product of the number of males, Y, and the cost of each men's shoe. This is given by,

($50) Y = $2500

The value of Y is 50. Therefore, there needs to be 50 men customers for Javier to breakeven with his expenses.