How do you simplify this expression?
z + 8 - 4z

Rena is building a 1: 180 scale model of a real castle. her model has a rectangular base that is 3 feet wide and 4 feet long what is the area of the base of the actual castle in square feet

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size.it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?

The sum of these consecutive integers is equal to 9 less than 4 times the least of the integer. find the three integers