Given Data:
Total number of shoes Erica has is: t=32
The portion of high heel shoes is: r=5/8
The expression to calculate the total number of high heel shoes is,
[tex]\begin{gathered} \text{Total Number of high h}eel\text{ shoes=r}\times t \\ =\frac{5}{8}\times32 \\ =5\times4 \\ =20 \end{gathered}[/tex]Thus, Erica has 20 high heel shoes.