If each item Kathy puts in the box weighs 2 kg, then the weight of p items will be 2p kilograms. Since the box weighs 1 kg, the total weight in kilograms will be ...
... 2p + 1
Kathy wants that value to be less than or equal to 10 kg, so her inequality will be
... 2p + 1 ≤ 10 . . . . . corresponds to selection D