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For which rational expression is -2 an excluded value of x?

Of the ones listed here, the factor that had the greatest impact on the eventual destruction of native americans' ways of life was the development of the a) automobile. b) highway. c) railroad. d) steamboat.

Prove that the value of the expression 7^8–7^7+7^6 is divisible by 43.