The answer is C2H2 because an alkyne compound consists of a series of unsaturated hydrocarbons with a triple bond.
In order to obtain solid NaCl, the student should do a few steps.
First, he/she should do filtration. Pass the mixture through a filter paper, where all the sand should be filtered out already because they're not dissolved in the solution plus they're too small to pass through the filter paper.
Next, the filtrate should be left with NaCl (aqueous state). To seperate NaCl with the liquid, the student can either do evaporation or crystallization, depending on how pure or fast he/she wants the results to be. Evaporation involves heating the beaker or whatever apparatus under the bunsen burner until all the liquid has evaporated. Then, some white powder should be left, they're NaCl solid. For crystallization, the student should just put the beaker on a room condition environment, and wait. They might have to wait a month or so for the liquid to completely evaporate itself and left with clear and pure NaCl crystals.
City B is at a higher temperature because as you go higher in altitude the boiling point of water becomes lower.
The temperature is the same but the heat flow is the opposite.