SOLUTION: Raymond had his collection of cd's stolen from his home. The insurance company gave him $936 to replace it , based on average replacement cost of $12 per cassette and $18 per CD .

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Question 1105988: Raymond had his collection of cd's stolen from his home. The insurance company gave him $936 to replace it , based on average replacement cost of $12 per cassette and $18 per CD . Set up an equation that represents this situation and rearrange this equation into the form y=mx+b
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
One equation, set of just CD's?

y=18%2Ax%2B0
or
936=18%2Ax, and you can calculate how many CD's the insurance company paid for according its own plan.
but this only for the CD's, assuming Raymond had no cassettes, or none of them stolen.