A(n brief might be submitted by an interest group hoping to sway the supreme court’s decision by providing the group’s legal rationale for why the court should rule a certain way.

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