In debates leading up to the three fiths compromise, southern states argued that

In debates leading up to the Three-Fifths Compromise, southern states argued that: A. slaves should be counted among a state's population for the purpose of deciding the state's number of congressional representatives. B. slavery should be made legal in every state, including states that would be added in the future

the correct answer is d: "party organizers, volunteers, voters, and elected officials."

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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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