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

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.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Ted can buy 8 blocks of mahogany.

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*200=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
`(3600)/(450)= 8` blocks of mahogany.

The answer is 8 blocks.