It is possible for a Presidential Candidate to become President without getting the most people to vote for them.

No, technically not, but there has been tampering with the elections in the past that may have caused wrong people to get elected.

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