Why do both ways of writing the numbers as ten and ones describe the same number?

What is the value of x in the diagram below?

Noor brought 21 sheets of stickers. she gave 1/3 of a sheet to each of the 45 students at recess. she wants to give teachers 1 1/2 sheets each.

Eric has challenged himself to walk 24,000 steps in 4 days. if eric walks the same number of steps each day, which function represents the number of steps eric still needs to walk to reach his goal with respect to the number of days since he started his challenge? a. y = 8,000x − 24,000 b. y = -8,000x + 24,000 c. y = 6,000x − 24,000 d. y = -6,000x + 24,000