James is playing an arcade game with tokens. In the first game, he hits the jackpot and doubles the number of
tokens that he has. In the second game, James wins 12
more tokens. In his third and final game, he loses 4
tokens. James now has 170 tokens. How many tokens
did he have before he started playing the game?

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?