Which statement best describes george washington?
1. he was a member a member of the democratic-republican party
2. he was the only member of the fedalist party to be elected president
3. he never belonged to a political party
4. he was the first president who was a member of the republican party

He never belonged to a political party- A+

the federalist party which advocated strong centralization dominated the united states government till 1800. so 1800 election transformed the power from one party to another party for the first time and was thus a turning point in american history. so jefferson called it "revolution of 1800".

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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