When Tallulah runs the 400 meter dash, her finishing times are normally distributed with a mean of 79 seconds and a standard deviation of 0.5 seconds. Using the empirical rule, what percentage of races will her finishing time be between 78 and 80 seconds?

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?