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2. How do we know how long an article should be? You don't. You need to do competitor analysis research on the top 5 websites in the SERP to understand what Google has chosen as the preferred article length on average for that keyword/phrase.
3. After competitor analysis, we just make our article longer? No, you do not. I would actually try condensing the article first if possible into a more concise, adapted version, as seen below. In our personal tests, this has actually done better than writing more content.
4. If I follow these steps will I rank? No, there is no way to know when or how Google is ranking your article. If you get it indexed with less content, examine what SERP page it falls on and begin looking for content gaps, how you can add proximal keywords, or even ways to optimize for user navigation through the table of contents, bread crumbs, so forth, and so on.
So you don't actually know the answer? No one does. Part of being an SEO is understanding that content creation and on-page SEO is iterative. You do it until you reach number one.