The answer is 7. Since Alice has 1/5 as many cars as Sylvester. You multiply 1/5 by how many cars Sylvester has. Sylvester has 35 cars, so you would do 35 times 1/5 or 35 divided by 5 (multiply by 1/5 and divided by 5 are the same thing) and you would get your answer of 7.
C) (0.85 + x/100)(250+145) does not give the correct answer.
Explanation
A) works; adding the two costs together is 250+145=395. We multiply this by 0.85 because 100%-15%=85%=0.85. We also have x% tax, which is represented by x/100, added to 100% of the value, or 1.00. Altogether this gives us
395(0.85)(1+x/100) = 395(0.85 + (0.85x/100)) = 395(0.85) + 395(0.85x/100)
= 395(0.85) + 395(0.0085x)
B) works; we have 250+145 for the original price; we have 85% = 0.85 of the value; we also have 100% + x%, which is (100+x)/100.
C) does not work; (0.85+x/100)(395) does not take into consideration that you are finding the tax after taking the 85%. This will simplify out to
0.85*395 + (x/100)(395) = 335.75 + 395x/100 = 335.75 + 3.95x, which is too much.
D) works; simplifying the expression from A, we have 395(0.85) + 395(0.0085x) = 335.75 + 3.3575x.
This figure is what we would call a composite figure. A composite figure is a shape that is made up of multiple other shapes. when looking at the pond and the border that surrounds it, we can see that this heart shape is made up of two semi circles and a square. To find the area of the border, we will use the area formulas for semi circles and for squares:
Semi Circle Area Formula:

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2
Square Area Formula: length x width
Pi = 3.14
Radius = Half of the diameter, in this case 6
After finding the area of each shape, we can subtract the 2 ft width to find the area of the flower bed border.