What level of government has primary responsibility for defining marriages and other civil contracts? a. federal b. municipal c. county d. state

the answer is D state. the state has to pass the laws for marriages. like same sex marriage, before Obama passed it as a law for every state, it was up to the states congress to pass same sex marriage.

what are the others?

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