What's the value of given expression :

Nine more than four times a number is the same as one less than twice the number. find the number?

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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.