The written portion of Ben's driving test had 40 questions. Ben correctly answered 12 more than he missed. How many questions did Ben miss?

Val and tony get paid per project. val is paid a project fee of $44 plus $12 per hour. tony is paid a project fee of $35 plus $15 per hour. write an expression to represent how much a company will pay to hire both to work the same number of hours on a project.