Is the following statement true or false? The colonists' primary concern was that they were paying too much in taxes to the British government.

True

Explanation:

Many colonists felt that they should not pay these taxes, because they were passed in England by Parliament, not by their own colonial governments. Taxes caused tension between the two.

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

b. they tried to evict the squatters from the area.

so sorry if wrong