Lula is sewing together an American flag that has dimensions of 65 by 39 inches. Each short stripe has a length of 39 inches. All the stripes have the same height. She needs to buy some more red fabric for the red (shaded) stripes. What is the area of the red (shaded
stripes)?

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?