The introduction of the cotton gin meant that enslaved workers on southern plantations no longer had to weave cotton cloth. plant cotton. harvest cotton. pick cotton seeds.

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

determination