Leslie needs to make a pie and some cupcakes. she's used half of her butter to make the pie, and then uses a quarter of the remaining butter to make the cupcakes. if she has 2 cups of butter left, how much did she have before she made the pie?

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?