What is the greatest age that pat could be?

Having a hard time understanding this question (see attachment).

Ten members of balin's soccer team ran warm ups for practice. each member ran the same distance. their combined distance was 5/6 of a mile. to find the distance that each member ran, balin wrote the expression below.

If 7x=9y, y/z = 7/5 , then x/z = (a) 2/7 (b) 7/9 (c) 9/5 (d) 9/7 (e) 5/9