. Michael leaves home and drives 17 miles west to work. After work, he travels 9 miles to a friend's
house. If the bearing from work to the friend's house is S 24 E, find the distance between the
friend's house and home.

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.