A rectangular floor measures a by b feet, where a and b are positive integers with b>a. An artist paints a rectangle on the floor with the sides of the rectangle parallel to the sides of the floor. The unpainted part of the floor forms a border of width 1 foot around the painted rectangle and occupies half of the area of the entire floor. How many possibilities are there for the ordered pair (a,b)?
<spanclass=′latex−bold′>(A)</span>1<spanclass=′latex−bold′>(B)</span>2<spanclass=′latex−bold′>(C)</span>3<spanclass=′latex−bold′>(D)</span>4<spanclass=′latex−bold′>(E)</span>5