Asystem in which individual citizens interact in the marketplace to exchange goods and services is called a) communism b) a market economy c) socialism d) mercantilism

The answer is D.

Explanation:

Merchant means trader.

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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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