Ellen is playing a video game in which she captures butterflies. There are 6 butterflies onscreen, but the number of butterflies doubles every minute. After 4 minutes, she was able to capture 3 of the butterflies.

Answer 1

You do not tell us what the question is but I could not do it anyway because I do not know if the 3 were caught in the first minute or the fourth or whatever.

Answer 2

The length of the smaller rectangle at the right is 1 inch less than twice its width. Both the dimensions of the larger rectangle are 2 inches longer than the smaller rectangle. The area of the shaded region is 86 square inches. What is the area of the larger rectangle?