Answer:
(a) x=−20 1/2
Step-by-step explanation:
Multiply by the product of the denominators and solve the resulting linear equation in the usual way.

Alright,
you will need to solve for each variable to find if they got the equation correctly or not..
Let's start with h
isolate h
(1/2)h = A/(b1+b2)
Now we need to get rid of 1/2 we may do so by multiplying both sides by 2
h = 2(A/(b1+b2))
And that's not how they did it for h so Option D doesn't apply
Let's see C
Also doesn't apply since they multiplied 2 only by A rather than A/h
Let's see B
Also not correct they made the same mistake as with option C
Let's see A
again same mistake
when multiplying both sides by 2
the 2 should be as following

I believe you should contact your instructor and explain that non of the options is right.
Answer: It represents the area of the two circular sides ("lids")
Explanation:
Imagine you made a cylinder out of 3 pieces of paper. The cylinder can be decomposed into two circular shapes (radius r) and one rectangular piece with two side lengths: one is "h", the other has to be long enough to go around each of the disks, so it has to be 2*pi*r long.
So the term 2*pi*r*h is the area of the rectangular piece and pi*r^2 is the area of each of the "lids" Since there are two of those, the term 2*pi*r^2 represents the area of the bottom and top lids.
The answer for the question is 4