Asquare garden outside of tom's apartment has an area of 64 square meters. the area can be represented by the equation x2 = 64 where x is the length of a side of the garden. enter the length of the garden (in meters).

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.