It’s confusing on how they worded it to me

You're looking for the equation of the line through the two yellow points, whose coordinates are (4, 0) and (8, 9).
Compute the slope:
(9 - 0) / (8 - 4) = 9/4
Using the point-slope formula, the equation of the line is
y - 0 = 9/4 (x - 4)
or
y = 9x/4 - 9