What does the quote mean? “Though good laws do well, good men do better.”- William Penn

Explanation: Good laws are to keep a society in order, to protect it from evils like murder, or even burglary. The fact is, a lot of people will not adhere to these laws and the majority of these people are not contributing any good into his or her own society. If societies had more good people, who follow the laws and spread happiness and kindness, each community would be more productive and rebellion, or any similar situations, would not be likely to happen.

social status of early civilizations was based primarily on economic power.- true ( first choice)

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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:

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