Here, there are two alternating patterns, one addition and one subtraction. The first starts with 2 and increases by 2; the second starts with 44 and decreases by 3.
2 44 4 41 6 38 8 - Look carefully for the pattern, and then choose which pair of numbers comes next.

[a] 35 10
[b] 12 10
[c] 9 34
[d] 52 10
[e] 34 89