Kevin designs the pasta box shown. His box holds exactly the OLD WORLD PASTA required amount of pasta. Kevin's boss says there must be at least 2 in. of space between the top of the pasta and the top of the box. Kevin changes his design so that the height of the box is 9 in. and the area of the base is 9 in.2. Will the pasta fit in the new box with enough space at the top? Explain.

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?