That is more of a History of English question.
Answer:
A. 1.64 J
Explanation:
First of all, we need to find how many moles correspond to 1.4 mg of mercury. We have:

where
n is the number of moles
m = 1.4 mg = 0.0014 g is the mass of mercury
Mm = 200.6 g/mol is the molar mass of mercury
Substituting, we find

Now we have to find the number of atoms contained in this sample of mercury, which is given by:

where
n is the number of moles
is the Avogadro number
Substituting,
atoms
The energy emitted by each atom (the energy of one photon) is

where
h is the Planck constant
c is the speed of light
is the wavelength
Substituting,

And so, the total energy emitted by the sample is

Answer:
The hypothesis may or may not be true and needs to be tested. It might be the answer to the problem. Hence, it must be tested thoroughly. When these predictions are tested again and again in independent scientific experiments and gets verified, the hypothesis is converted into a scientific theory.