How to a 10 year old right a fraction from 3.5

Kelly is a salesperson at a shoe store, where she must sell a pre-set number of pairs of shoes each month. at the end of each work day the number of pairs of shoes that she has left to sell that month is given by the equation s=300-15x , where s is the number of pair of shoes kelly still needs to sell and x is the number of days she has worked that month. what is the meaning of the number 300 in this equation

The candy store is having a 30% off sale. emma is going to buy $7.50 worth of candy.how much will she pay after the discount

Need plz been trying to do it for a long time and still haven’t succeeded