Find the sample size needed to estimate the percentage of Independents (also referred to as "swing voters") among the registered voters in Illinois. Since these votes could be crucial to winning the election, we want the error to be no more than 3% at a 95% confidence level. Assume p and q are unknown.

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?