Question

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 1

Answer:

Sorry, all I know is that after he got the 7 blocks of spruce he will have $3,600  left over. I don't know how many blocks he can buy with that.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

Ted can buy 8 blocks of mahogany.

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 = $7\times200=1400$ dollars

Money left after buying spruce = $5000-1400=3600$ dollars

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

So, $3600 will be spent on buying $\frac{3600}{450}= 8$ blocks of mahogany.

The answer is 8 blocks.