Final answer:
A state with nine elected officials in the U.S. House has 11 electoral votes in presidential elections, which is the sum of its Representatives plus two Senators.
Step-by-step explanation:
If a state has nine elected officials in the U.S. House of Representatives, then it has a total of 11 electoral votes in presidential elections.
This is because the number of Electoral College votes a state has is equal to the sum of its Representatives and Senators. Since every state has two Senators, you add those two to the number of House members (9 in this case), which gives you 11.
Therefore, the correct answer to the question is: a. 11 electoral votes (as this is not among the presented options, the assumption is that there was a typo in the question's options).