Use the Number line to find each measure

Avegetable garden and a surrounding path are shaped like a square that together are 11ft wide. the path is 2ft wide. find the total area of the vegetable garden and path

Question: what is the value of x 4x-2= (-7) +5x. it would be greatly appreciated if someone could actually explain to me step by step

John read the first 114 pages of a novel, which was 3 pages less than 1/3 of the novel. write an equation to determine the total number of pages (p)(p) in the novel.