Janet has a square piece of cloth. she cuts 3 inches off of the length of the square and 3 inches off of the width. the area of the smaller square is 1/4 of the area of the original square. what was the side length of the original square?

(05.02) mr. morris is going to save money and replace his sailboat's mainsail himself. he must determine the area of the mainsail in order to buy the correct amount of material. calculate the area of the parallelogram to determine how much material should be purchased. be sure to explain how to decompose this shape into rectangles and triangles. describe their dimensions and show your work.