Neil and tom love to collect baseball cards. neil has 83 more baseball cards than tom. neil has 517 baseball cards.

how many baseball cards does tom have?

Ian is in training for a national hot dog eating contest on the 4th of july. on his first day of training, he eats 4 hot dogs. each day, he plans to eat 110% of the number of hot dogs he ate the previous day. write an explicit formula that could be used to find the number of hot dogs ian will eat on any particular day.