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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.

The marked price of an article is 25% above its selling price and the cost price is 30% less than its marked price . find the discount percent and gain percent. only a brainlest can solve it i will mark you brainlest

True or false: the graph of y=f(bx) is a horizontal compression of the graph y=f(x) if b< 1