You combined the x’s together then u wanna move all the x’s to one side then after that you would want to do the opposite of -7, so then you add 7 to 10 and then you would divide everything by 2 and get x=8.5
Part a I am pretty sure it is a pattern so 4 plus 2 is 6, 6 plus 3 is nine and then 9 plus 4 is 13 Then 13 plus 5 is 18
Answer is 18
In part b he will not finish his work he has to get to 274 and he only gets to about 50 something
Hope this helps
Simplify the ratio 8 to 2 to be 4 to 1
Now compare 4 to 1 and 10 to 1
4 is smaller than 10 so the ratio 8 to 2 is smaller.
