The phrase "explain the latter" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an idea or item previously mentioned, and you can use it to prompt someone to explain that idea or item in more detail. For example, "Jennifer mentioned two possible solutions, but she didn't elaborate on either one. Can you explain the latter?".
Let me explain the latter point first.
The tax-loss selling theory really can't explain the latter.
Asked to explain the latter, she references a British industry description for a heel with a slightly flared base: "You know, toilet shaped".
"I've been so lucky and I've met people that have really worked in the way that I respect," she says, trying to explain the latter.
Mechanisms that may explain the latter feature include special biochemical defense properties of cancer stem cells, metabolic peculiarities such as the dependence on autophagy, drug-tolerant persisting cells, intratumoral heterogeneity, secreted factors from the microenvironment, tumor vascularization patterns and immunosurveillance-related factors.
But come September, 1939, he turned British superpatriot and personal propagandizer for Churchill, which helps explain the latter's jacket blurb.
Upshaw explained the latter.
As Nobel laureate Peter Diamond has explained, the latter change is hugely regressive, primarily targeting poor workers in physically demanding occupations.
By James Thurber The New Yorker, December 10, 1927 P. 19 New attendant at soda fountain asks how to fill a difficult order and when veteran has explained the latter remarks "It takes years to learn the soda game".
And it is the ways in which these markets are, in turn, so deeply intertwined with the US Treasury and Federal Reserve that explains the latter's dominant role in global economic management.
As the Department explained the latter conclusion, having a perceived capability of transmitting AIDS because of the presence in the bloodstream of AIDS antibodies or otherwise is not a protected handicap.
