How do you subtract negatives and positives numbers? (example)

Hurrya vegetable garden and a surrounding path are shaped like a square that together are 11ft wide. the path is 2ft wide if one bag of gravel covers 9 square feet how many bags are needed to cover the path

You are standing next to a really big circular lake. you want to measure the diameter of the lake, but you don't want to have to swim across with a measuring tape! you decide to walk around the perimeter of the lake and measure its circumference, and find that it's 400\pi\text{ m}400? m. what is the diameter dd of the lake?

Need solving this 2nd limit problem.