1. A rectangular lawn is 32 m long and 23 m wide. A path 1.5 m wide is made round the
lawn. What is the area of the path?

Afarmer has a large field that is x feet in length. he wants to fence in a rectangular section in the middle of the field , leaving a length of 100 feet of open field behind each end of the fenced rectangle.he also wants the width of the fenced-in space to be 100 feet less than its length. find the expressions to represent the length and width of the fenced section of the field