Which of the following pieces of legislation made discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, or national origin illegal?

a. the civil rights act

b. the jim crow laws

c. the open housing act

d. the age discrimination in employment act

the answer is

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