What is meant by a “conservation law"? What conditions are necessary in order to say that a system is obeying such a law?

Which statement best describes the superposition principle? a.) if two in-phase waves arrive simultaneously at a point, their amplitudes add up b.) if two out-of-phase waves arrive simultaneously at a point, their amplitudes add up c.) if two in-phase waves arrive at a point one after another, their amplitudes add up d.) if two out-of-phase waves arrive at a point one after another, their amplitudes adds up