For the end-of-year party, mt. rise middle school ordered 112 pizzas. there were eight fewer veggie pizzas than there were pepperoni pizzas. there were three times as many combo pizzas as pepperoni pizzas. use the 5-d process to define a variable and write an equation for this situation. then determine how many of each kind of pizza were ordered.

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?