On a coordinate plane, any movement up and down is on the y-axis. So if your parallelogram is moving down 2.5 units, then the y-values of each vertice will go down by 2.5: A(-2, -8), B(-4, -8), C(-3, -4.5), D(-1, -4.5)
It's 70 because first you have multiply for Cindy's words 65×7=455 then multiple David's 75 word times 7 and you get 525. Lastly, You subtract both of their totals and get 70