Select the reason(s) why the Articles of Confederation were adopted. 1. extensive land claims by states 2. Congress serving as the last resort on appeals of disputes 3. authority to make treaties and alliances 4. maintain armed forces 5. coin money 6. levy taxes 7. regulate commerce​

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation:

i also think it is c

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire