Can someone solve this pls

Nine more than four times a number is the same as one less than twice the number. find the number?

Me with this assignment ! i only partially understand, so explain. also it's a work sample. at the championship bike race, steve and paula were fighting for first place. steve was 175 feet ahead of paula and had only 300 feet left to go. he was very tired and was going only 9 feet per second. paula was desperate to catch up and was going 15 feet per second. who won the bike race and by how far did she/he win?

Urgent! 20 points! here is a you are the new manager at trusty goods wholesale produce. you need to figure out how to adjust the amount of produce in your notes after the events of the day: you got 5 more crates of bananas someone returned 2 crates of apples a worker dropped a crate of grapes (oh no! , you had to throw them out) you sold a crate of bananas you sold 5 crates of apples can you write an expression to describe your day using: "a" for crates of apples "b" for crates of bananas and "g" for crates of grapes? make sure the expression is in simplest form question 2 (3 points) explain your steps using sentences.