Arjun rides his bike 4 kilometers a day for 12 days. How far does Arjun ride his bike in these 12 days?

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.