Mr. Randall, a salesperson, earns a weekly salary of $300 plus a commission of 7% of his weekly sales of merchandise. Last week, Mr. Randall earned $426. This can be
represented by the equation below, where s represents his total sales, in dollars, for
the week.
$300 + $0.07s = $426
How many dollars worth of merchandise did Mr. Randall sell last week?

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?