Shane is using pieces of square paper to cover a cube shaped gift with sides that are 9 inches long to find out the area of the paper he needs, he uses the formula for surface area of a cube A=6s to the power of 2.What is the surface area of the cube.

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?