Who was involved in the case of gibbons v. ogden?
a two competing owners of steamboat companies
b a steamboat owner and the federal government
c two steamboat owners who didn’t want to pay federal taxes
d two steamboat owners who argued with federal law

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