An election is over and a new student body president has been elected. The new president received 5
votes for every vote received by his opponent. The new president received 2135 votes. How many votes did his opponent receive?

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.