James owns a furniture store. He has a table that normally costs $150 and wants to have a coupon that will allow his loyal customers to pay only $105 for the table. What are two different ideas for coupons that James can give to his customers? Explain how using the coupons will decrease the cost to $105.

Orly uses 2 cups of raisins for every 12 cups of trail mix she makes. how many cups of trail mix will she make if she uses 8 cups of raisins?

Jessica and martha each have a bag of cookies with unequal quantities. they have 30 cookies total between the two of them. each of them ate 6 cookies from their bag. the product of the number of cookies left in each bag is not more than 80. how many more cookies will jessica have martha? if x represents the number of cookies jessica started with, complete the statements below.the inequality that describes the relationship between the number of cookies each one of them has is x^2 - x +224 > = 0.jessica has at least cookies more than martha.

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