What was the 1787 constitutional convention? !

The official purpose of the Constitutional Convention that was held in the beginning on May 25, 1787 was to amend the Articles of Confederation.  It was to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.

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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:

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