The second question is actually interesting as it is basically asking for the sphere of influence of a team (ignoring that these spheres are really more like cylinders).
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How far apart can teams be and still have students participate in both? How far is too far?
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This is a combination of the population density, resources, the economic status, and the size of the team. Population density plays the major factor since you have a limited amount of resources with which to inspire students, the more dense the area you are in the smaller an area you can affect due to your finite resources. Economic resources of area matter because students are less likely to be able to travel a great distance regularly if the economic conditions are bad (gas costs money and when money is tight robotics is more likely to be cut than groceries or electricity). Finally the size of the team is a factor due to the fact that much recruiting is done word of mouth. It also plays into the resources the team has available to it (more parents could potentially increase sponsors/mentors or more students could deplete the finite resources)
And then we have the exceptions to these rules, the teams that flourish despite low population density, poor economic conditions, low resources... etc. But we can disregard them since they are outliers and I presume FIRST wants to see the average rather than the exceptional.
Now, as far as how you turn those factors into a radius... I'm gonna leave that to smarter people.