100 points! Please help asap! Look at the picture attached. My teacher said that both 1 and 2 are neither can someone explain why they are neither? Correct answers will get brainliest!

Ms. sutton recorded the word counts and scores of the top ten essays in a timed writing contest. the table shows her data. how does the word count of an essay relate to its score in the contest? word count tends to decrease as the score decreases. word count tends to increase as the score decreases. word count tends to remain constant as the score decreases. word count has no apparent relationship to the score of the essay.

Solve for x -2.3(r - 1.2 ) = -9.66 enter you answer as decimal.

Anyone know? will mark brainliest if correct