Question

1. tara and veronica are making a parallelogram - shaped banner for a football game. they will paint the entire banner except for a rectangular section where a photo of the schools mascot will be placed. the photo of the mascot has an area of 6 square feet. if a 16 - ounce bottle of primer covers 24 square feet, how many bottles of paint will they need?

Explanation:

Step1: Calculate area of parallelogram

The area formula for a parallelogram is $A = base\times height$. Here, base = 8 ft and height = 9 ft, so $A_{parallelogram}=8\times9 = 72$ square - feet.

Step2: Calculate area to be painted

The area of the photo section is 6 square - feet. So the area to be painted $A = A_{parallelogram}-6=72 - 6=66$ square - feet.

Step3: Calculate number of paint bottles

If 1 bottle covers 24 square - feet, then the number of bottles $n=\frac{66}{24}=2.75$. Since we can't buy a fraction of a bottle, we need to round up to 3 bottles.

Answer:

3 bottles