My knowledge and application of mathematics is shaky at best, I’ll freely admit, so perhaps I am missing something key here which explains the seemingly inexplicable.
If I go into a shop and buy a slice of cake it costs, lets say for simplicity, 1 GBP. Then if I decided I wanted the whole cake, or eight slices I could expect it to cost 8 GBP or perhaps a little less as I am buying in bulk. I have never entered a shop which charged more for a slice of cake than the whole cake.
So can someone explain this to me?
Why does something which uses a quarter of the materials cost 4 times as much? If you work in the clothing industry and would like to offer and explanation I’d be very interested to hear from you.