Why is underfind the square root of a negative number?​

Lin is writing an equation to model the proportional relationship between y, the total cost in dollars of downloading videos from a website, and x, the number of videos downloaded. she knows that the total cost to download 3 videos was $12. her work to find the equation is shown below. joylin’s work step 1 k= 3/12= 0.25 step 2 y= 0.25x where did joylin make her first error?

Amountain climber starts a climb at an elevation of 453 feet above sea level at his first rest stop he has climbed 162 feet and by his second rest stop he has climbed another 207 feet its getting late in the day so the climber starts his way down if the climber desends 285 feet how much does he need to ascend or descend to return to the original starting point

Which expression gives the exact value of x?