X - the number of pencils
y - the number of pens
She has twice as many pencils as she has pens.

Tom borrows a pen, so she has y-1 pens. Now she has ten less pens than pencils.

Set 2y and y+9 equal to each other:
She has 9 pens.
4/7 make into slope form which will get you that
The question is asking to choose among the following choices that states the question that represent the said sentence in your question and base on the fact and further understanding about the said sentence, I would say that the answer would be ((x+4)/2)-3(4/x). I hope you are satisfied with my answer and feel free to ask for more
If the total amount of points in a test is 140, and we want to find 10% of those points, we can do the following to figure out how much points the question is worth...
140 points x 10% = 140 x 0.1 = 14 points for the short-answer quesion.