Ted buys wood to build his guitars. Find the number of blocks of mahogany that Ted can afford to buy if he wishes to spend a total of $5000 this month, mahogany costs $450 per block, and he has already bought 7 blocks of spruce at $200 each. Answer choices:
7
8
11
10

the answer is 8

Step-by-step explanation:

Total amount Ted wishes to spend this month is $5000.

Mahogany costs $450 per block, and he has already bought 7 blocks of spruce at $200 each.

So, money spent on spruce =  dollars

Money left after buying spruce =  dollars

Now as $450 will be spent on buying 1 block of mahogany.

So, $3600 will be spent

and then your answer will be 8

step-by-step explanation:

3

step-by-step explanation:

because where the point where the 2 lines intersect is (3,-1) the x value is 3