What happens when a bank is required to hold more money in reserve

A bank is required to hold more money in reserve because bank has low amounts to create loans for the people or for its consumers. The central bank (like reserve bank in India) of each country sets a certain amount of money or percentage usually that the commercial are required to holds  in reserve every time, this amount usually depends on the amount of deposits that the bank have.

The excess amount or limit as directed by central banks means commercial banks have less money to borrow the investors and this will lead to an increase in the interest rate and vice a versa.

answer

explanation

the given equation is

we can rewrite this as:

let

then the equation becomes:

the factors of 8 that sum up to -9 are {-1,-8}

we split the middle term with these factors to obtain,

we factor by grouping to obtain:

apply the zero product property to get:

but

i believe the answer to your question is b. pay your bills early