A painting class charges a $55 registration fee plus an additional $25 for each week that you attend. Write an equation that could be used to find the total cost y for someone to attend the class for any number of weeks x. Then find how much it would cost for 7 weeks.

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?