Why did Spanish plantation owners in the West Indies begin using enslaved Africans instead of enslaved natives? ≡ Plantation owners could trade food and clothing for enslaved people
European diseases had killed much of the native workforce
Plantation owners wanted to help enslaved Africans pay their debts
Africans would only sell enslaved people to plantation owners

European diseases had killed much of the native workforce

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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:

but

where are the options?

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