Blue Book Questions

JefferyJung
Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:27:50 +0000

Let’s organize the info.
Total cost = y dollars
Total number of coworkers = m
Total number of coworkers who failed to contribute = p

As for your question, yp does not give the cost that remaining workers need to make up. y is the total cost.
b** gives the individual cost that were supposed to be paid by everyone.
But p number of people did not pay this cost.
Therefore, b * p** gives the total cost that needs to be redistributed to each faithful workers…(represented by m-p)

[(y/m) * p] / (m-p) = (yp)/[m(m-p)]