How did the central pacific and union pacific railroad companies profit from constructing the railroad? by selling railroad lines back to the government at a profit by owning businesses in the towns that developed along the railroad by building railroad monopolies and continually raising prices
by selling pieces of land granted to them to build the railroad

by selling pieces of land granted to them to build the railroad.

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:

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