$30 for 2 1/2 hours of work

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?

Tommy buys a sweater that is on sale for 40% off the original price. the expression p -0.4p can be used to find the sale price of the sweater, where p is the original price of the sweater. if the original price of the sweater is 50, what is the sale price?

Need solving this 2nd limit problem.