A Consumer Has $1,000 a Week to Spend on Renting

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Essay

A consumer has $1,000 a week to spend on renting square feet of housing (at a price of $5 per square foot) and eating out (at a price of $20 per meal).With square feet of housing on the horizontal and meals on the vertical axis, what is the vertical intercept and what is the slope of this consumer's budget constraint?

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