James wants to tile his floor using tiles in the shape of a trapezoid. To make a pattern a little more interesting he has decided to cut the tiles in half along the median. The top base of each tile is 12 inches in length ant the bottom base is 16 inches. How long of a cut will John need to make so that he cuts the tiles along the median?

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