Help!?!! Im sooo confused

In the final round of trivia competition, contestants were asked to name as many states that begin with the letter m as they could in 15 seconds. the bar graph shows the number of states the contestants were able to name. how many contestants participated in the final round of the competition?

Phillip had some bricks. he stacked them in 6 equal piles. which expression shows the number of bricks phillip put in each pile? let the variable m stand for the unknown number of bricks. m + 6 m÷6    m−6    6m

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