The area of a rectangle is 52 square inches. If the width of the rectangle is 6.5 inches, what is the length?

The first five terms of a linear sequence are given below. 7 , 12 , 17, 22 , 27 , what is the next term of the sequence?

Arley is building a model of a city map. in one part of the city, three roads form a right triangle, which harley draws as triangle abc, with the following measures: m∠b=90° and m∠a=30°. in his scale model, the hypotenuse of triangle abc, ac¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯, has a length of 817−−√ cm. what is the value of a (the length of bc¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯)?

[10 points, algebra 2-simplifying complex fractions]according to my answer key the restrictions are -1 and 4. but why not positive 1?