during the civil war, cotton diplomacy was a
a. successful confederate strategy for funding the war.
b. an attempt to force the british to recognize the confederacy.
c. a southern strategy for outlasting the north in battle
d. a term for negotiations between the union and the confederacy.

A successful Confederate strategy for funding the war

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

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