You can either use a caculator or use pencil and paper if you know how to times the numbers line them up then time it ill show you
For this case we have that by definition, the area of a rectangle is given by:

Where:
a, b: They are the dimensions of the rectangle.
In the statement we are told that "The area is greater than 12 square inches", then:

Also we have:

Substituting we have:

Dividing between 2 on both sides:

Finally we have:

ANswer:

The answer is D. all you have to do is solve for y.