Solve the problem.In 2007, business analysts estimated that the number of skilled carpenters working in a certain city was decreasing each year. The number of employed carpenters in a given year is 27 - 5n hundred fewer than the previous year. Find the decrease in employed carpenters in 2010, if year 1 is 2007. Find how many total hundred carpenters became unemployed from 2007 through 2010.

A. 7 hundred carpenters; 58 hundred carpenters
B. 7 hundred carpenters; 51 hundred carpenters
C. 7 hundred carpenters; 36 hundred carpenters
D. 12 hundred carpenters; 51 hundred carpenters


Answer: A

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