Answer is B- you might begin to visualize the story.
Jocelyn makes more than $195 but not over $645. The amount she has to pay is 15% of the excess of 196. Find this first via subtraction.
421 - 195 = $226 over
Take 15% of this
226 x .15 = $33.9
The tax also includes a $14.4 addition to this 15%.
33.9 + 14.4 = $48.3 total income tax
It helps to imagine the variable a sort of as a unit. Like with 5 minus 12 lemons, it has no bearings on the addition/subtraction here.
Factor out a and subtract.
I think that the missing word here is:
"with the amount of the material that Michelle has"
Let's say that her landing strip is x miles long, then its area would be:

We also know how big it is:

now, let's multiply both sides by 6:



So the answer is that it would be

miles wide