The three medals earned in the Olympics are gold, silver, and bronze. In the 2014 Winter Olympics, the US had 28 total medal winners. There were two more gold medals than silver and the number of bronze medals was four less than the sum of the number of gold and silver medals. How many gold metals were earned?

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.