Yes it is answer A. (At least 20 characters long)
Political geography studies all the following except Economies ( answer A). Political geography is concern with study of both spatially uneven outcome of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structure. It also involve study of boundaries and their associated region.
X=-3 , y=-2
You have to plug it in to double check but make you know what's parallel and perpendicular.