A controversial bill is being debated in the state legislature. Representative Williams wants to estimate within 2 percentage points and with 95% confidence the difference in the proportion of her male and female constituents who favor the bill. What sample size should she obtain?

Amira is painting a rectangular banner 2 1/4 yards wide. the banner will have a blue background. amira has enough paint to cover 1 1/2 square yards of the wall. the school colors are blue and yellow, so amira wants to add yellow rectangles on the left and right sides of the blue rectangle. the yellow rectangles will each be 3/4 yards wide and the same height as the blue rectangle. what will be the total area of the two yellow rectangles?