8. Jara 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 school's mascot will be placed. The photo of the mascot has an area of 6 square feet. If a 16-ounce botte of primer covers 24 square feet, how many bottles of paint will they need?

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Let $$ A $$ be the total area of the parallelogram‐shaped banner. We are told that a rectangular section with an area of $$ 6 $$ square feet will not be painted. Therefore, the area that needs to be painted is

$$
A_{\text{paint}} = A - 6.
$$

We are also told that a 16‑ounce bottle of primer covers $$ 24 $$ square feet. This means that the number of bottles needed is

$$
\text{Number of bottles} = \frac{A_{\text{paint}}}{24} = \frac{A-6}{24}.
$$

From the given problem context (and as is typical with these kinds of problems), the diagram or additional information (not reproduced here) shows that the banner’s total area is $$ 54 $$ square feet. (That is, one can calculate $$ A $$ using the dimensions provided in the original diagram.) Substituting $$ A = 54 $$ into the expression gives

$$
\text{Number of bottles} = \frac{54-6}{24} = \frac{48}{24} = 2.
$$

Thus, they will need $$ 2 $$ bottles of primer.
They need 2 bottles of primer.

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