To make the paper bedding for his birds and rabbits, Maxwell uses a paper shredder and old newspapers. Maxwell’s paper shredder can shred 1/10 pounds of paper each cycle. If he has 4/5 pound of newspapers how many cycles will it take to shred all the paper?

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