Please help i don't know what to do​

Adaylily farm sells a portion of their daylilies and allows a portion to grow and divide. the recursive formula an=1.5(an-1)-100 represents the number of daylilies, a, after n years. after the fifth year, the farmers estimate they have 2225 daylilies. how many daylilies were on the farm after the first year?

Ahomeowner plans to hang wallpaper on one wall of a bedroom that is 10 feet long if a stripe of wallpaper is 20 inches wide and stripes or hung vertically how many stripes on wall paper with the homeowner required

Don't know how to find x given these segment lengths