In science class, Gladys did an experiment with an unknown solid. She started with 11 grams of the solid. During the experiment, the change in the mass of the solid was -4 grams. What was the final mass of the solid?

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?