Even after it was banned by congress, some government officials continued to secretly send money to the they got the money by illegally selling u. s. weapons to
a. rebels; afghanistan
b. patriots; cuba
c. “freedom fighters”; nicaragua
d. contras; iran

3.a

4.d

5.b

6.b

7.c

8.a

9.d

10.a

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