Hope this helps, I did it on paper that way it would be easier to show my work.
100-16=84
84÷7=12
there are 12 students in the class because first you subtract 16 from 100 so you have that left then you divide that by 7 to find out how many students get 7 markers.
Given:
The geometric sequence is:

To find:
The 9th term of the given geometric sequence.
Solution:
We have,

Here, the first term is:

The common ratio is:




The nth term of a geometric sequence is:

Where, a is the first term and r is the common ratio.
Substitute
to find the 9th term.




Therefore, the 9th term of the given geometric sequence is 5103.
The number is 6. The equation would be 8x - 12 = 36. You add over the 12 to the 36 to get 48. Then when you do 8x divided by 48, you get x = 6. Therefore, the number the problem is asking for is 6.