What is the answer for -7 x 7 please say the explanation too.

Is this a polynomial function? i need to know asap

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?

Acyclist bike x distance at 10 miles per hour .and returns over the same path at 8 miles per hour. what is the cyclist average rate for the round trip in miles per hour ?