A basket cottons 5 purple pencils and 3 brown pencils. If the two pencils are picked at random one of the other without replacement then what is the probability of pencils are that both purple ?

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 women'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.