Why did pioneers take apart their farm equipment when moving out west? they liked how it looked pulled apart. it prevented children from hurting themselves. it took up too much space in the wagon. they wanted to do like the other pioneers.

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?