In order to solve this, you have to plug in all of the costs of the gifts and add them, which in all equals $36. since jim only has 1/4 of the money he needs to buy the gifts, you need to divide 36 by 4. this gives you 9, so now you know he has 9 dollars.
and to find out how much more money he needs, you can subtract 9 from 36 which represents a fourth of the required money. the answer is 27, that's how much jim needs in order to buy his gifts.
The first thing we must do for this case is to find the equation of the line.

We have then:

We choose an ordered pair:

Substituting values:
From here we conclude:
Intersection with y:
We evaluate x = 0 in the function:
Slope of the line:
Point (-2, -5):
We evaluate the value of x = -2 and the value of y = -5

The equation is satisfied.
Point (8, 0):
It is part of the table, therefore belongs to the line.
Answer:
The slope is 1/2
The y-intercept is -4.
The points (-2, -5) and (8, 0) are also on the line.