Maria and Franco are draining water troughs on their farms. Maria's trough drained 60 gallons of water in 75 minutes. Franco's trough drained 75 gallons in an hour and a half. Explain whose trough drained faster.

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?