Can you answer this, please?

one of the red things

Step-by-step explanation:

if you subtract two red things from each side, you are left with two red things on one side and two E-tanks on the other. Then you can square root each side to find that one red thing equals one E-tank. Sence we don’t know the value of the red thing, this is as far as we can go

The answer would be D because smaller states were afraid of losing power to larger states.

Good Luck! Hope I helped:)