Aaron has been keeping track of the length of slugs he finds along the trial. He has found 9 so far with and average length of 12.75 cm. Then he found a monster slug large enough to raise the average to 13.75 cm. How many times longer was this monster slug than the original average? Answer in a decimal.

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.