response to customer complaints about rising prices of food items, a supermarket responds by making the following offer: For every $10 of purchase, the customers will earn $1 worth of coupons and this way they will end up making twice as much as the supermarket. If the supermarket makes $500 worth of total sales to all customers taken together, how much will it need to restrict its costs to so as to honour the offer?

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In response to customer complaints about rising prices of food items,
a supermarket responds by making the following offer:
For every $10 of purchase, the customers will earn $1 worth of coupons
and this way they will end up making twice as much as the supermarket.
If the supermarket makes $500 worth of total sales to all customers
taken together, how much will it need to restrict its costs to so as
to honour the offer? 

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