Question: Village Foods sells good food at a fair price. Their specialty is fresh vegetables. If they get 500 customers per month, and each customer purchases 2 heads of lettuce for $1 each and 4 tomatoes for $0.5 apiece, then how much money, in dollars, will the store receive in sales of lettuce and tomatoes per month? Think carefully first, then make a decision:
2 heads of lettuce at $1 apiece is 2 * $1 = $2. 4 tomatoes at $0.50 apiece is 4 * $0.5 = $2. Thus, each customer purchases $2 + $2 = $4 in lettuce and tomatoes per month. Therefore, if 500 customers per month spend $4 on lettuce and tomatoes, then the store will receive $4 * 500 = $2000 per month on sales of lettuce and tomatoes. So the answer is 2000.