Christopher and Ryan bake cookies. Ryan had a total of 42 cookies. Christopher said he had the same amount. What are the two different ways they could arrange the cookies that would show they had the same amount.

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.