During a sales trip, mr. jones drove 15 miles east from brownsville to carlton. then he drove several more miles east from carlton to sun city. the distance from brownsville to sun city is 35 miles. write and solve an addition equation to find how many miles it is from carlton to sun city.

Nick has box brads. he uses 4 brads for the first project. nick let’s b represent the original number of brads and finds that for the second project, the number of brads he uses is 8 more than half the difference of b and 4. write an expression to represent the number of brads he uses for the second project.