Sven has 11 more than twice as many costumers as when started selling newspapers He now has 73 customers. How many did he have when he started ?

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.