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Mickey needs to cut pieces of ribbon that are each 1 meter long tie onto balloons. if he has 8 pieces of ribbon that are each 1 dekameter long. how many 1 meter pieces of ribbon can he cut

The lengths of two sides of a right triangle are given. find the length of the third side. round to the nearest tenth if necessary. a) y = 12/5x + 39/5 b) y = 5/12x + 5/39 c) y = 12/5x - 39/5 d) y = 5/12x - 5/39

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