Why was maine not an original state?

it belonged to massachusetts.

it was part of canadian territory.

it was jointly controlled by the u. s. and britain.

it was included with new hampshire.

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