Let's call

the mass of the glider and

the total mass of the seven washers hanging from the string.
The net force on the system is given by the weight of the hanging washers:

For Newton's second law, this net force is equal to the product between the total mass of the system (which is

) and the acceleration a:

So, if we equalize the two equations, we get

and from this we can find the acceleration:
Is there any answers? Or is it asking you to choose?
What you need to know is that the force is
F=ma
The force is the product of mass and acceleration
this means that the acceleration is
a=F/m
a) The force is halved?
this means that f will be

now:
a=

So the accelaration will also he halved (it's the original acceleratation divided by 2)
b) The object's mass is halved?
a=

=a=

which is the original acceleration times two!! so it will double
c) The force and the object's mass are both halved?
now we have
a=

=a=

=a=

so they will cancel each other out and the acceleration will stay the same!
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