In a basketball game, Elena scores twice as many points as Tyler. Tyler scores four points fewer than Noah, and Noah scores three times as many points as Mai. If Mai
scores 5 points, how many
points did Elena score? Explain your reasoning.

22

Step-by-step explanation:

if mai scores 5 points and noah scores 3 times that then noah scored 15 points, and if tyler scores four less than noah than he scored 11 points, which you multiply by 2 to get elena's score which is 22

given the equation is 8+9z=-6, the first step would be to subtract the 8 from both sides:

8+9z-8=-6-8

since 8 minus 8 = 0, this would cancel out the 8. and since -6 minus 8 equals -14, the equation would look like this

9z = -14