4.What happened to Jedediah Smith? Did he survive? How?

Jedediah Smith, one of the nation's most important trapper-explorers, is killed by Comanche Indians on the Santa Fe Trail.On May 27, 1831, Smith was riding alone when a hunting party of Comanche Indians attacked him. Dazed and weakened by lack of water, Smith nonetheless managed to shoot one of the Comanche before he was overwhelmed and killed.

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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:

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food chain i would say only because there is competition on getting food and survival