There are 4 4-passenger taxis available so that's 4 x 4 = 16 total seats. There are 17 people needing transportation leaving 17 - 16 = 1 who will have to find other transportation.

The commutative property states that, when adding or multiplying numbers, the order in which they're added or multiplied does not matter. For example, 3 + 4 and 4 + 3 give the same result, as do 3 x 4 and 4 x 3.

To subtract these radicals together their radicands must be the same:

3\( \sqrt{28} \) - 5\( \sqrt{7} \)
3\( \sqrt{4 \times 7} \) - 5\( \sqrt{7} \)
3\( \sqrt{2^2 \times 7} \) - 5\( \sqrt{7} \)
(3)(2)\( \sqrt{7} \) - 5\( \sqrt{7} \)
6\( \sqrt{7} \) - 5\( \sqrt{7} \)

Now that the radicands are identical, you can subtract them:

A rational number (or fraction) is represented as a ratio between two integers, a and b, and has the form \({a \over b}\) where a is the numerator and b is the denominator. An improper fraction (\({5 \over 3} \)) has a numerator with a greater absolute value than the denominator and can be converted into a mixed number (\(1 {2 \over 3} \)) which has a whole number part and a fractional part.

The equation for this sequence is:

a_n = a_n-1 + 7

where n is the term's order in the sequence, a_n is the value of the term, and a_n-1 is the value of the term before a_n. This makes the next number:

a₆ = a₅ + 7
a₆ = 29 + 7
a₆ = 36