The length of each side of a square is 3 in more than the length of each side of a smaller square. The sum of the areas the squares is 225 in. Find the lengths of the sides of the two squares.
A side of the small square is in.; a side of the big square is in.

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?