Favour, anyone want to give me some help, helping my lad with his maths homework?!

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OK, he has some algebra to do and its been a long, long time since I had any dealings with such stuff (thankfully)!

He has 8 questions, all of a similar format.....if someone is kind enough to show me the workings to the one question I shall copy here I will be able to help him with the rest no doubt. Just need someone to point my 40 year old brain cells in the right direction. ;)

Your help would be very much appreciated. :)

Here goes:

A gardener is planting flowers. He buys 4 bags with t daffodils in each. When he opens up the bags he finds 7 daffodil bulbs have gone bad.

a) Write an expression for the number of daffodils he can plant.
b) He actually planted 33 daffodils. Use this information to form an equation.
c) Solve this equation to find the number of daffodils in each bag.

Please bear in mind, this is just to help me, help him, with this work..... I am not some 11 year old asking you to do my homework for me, ok guys! Thanks again for the help. :)
 
workings wouldnt really help any more than the answers, so heres the answers

:: 4t-7
:: 33 = 4t-7
:: 33+7 = 40 = 4t

40/4 = 10
 
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