Who is causing more damage to the earth more, India or the UK?

I think there is no particular country...all are equally responsible!!

Uk but the right answer is

Explanation:

Military reactors generate 97 percent of the high-level nuclear waste of the U.S. Global military operations are estimated to cause 20 percent of all environmental degradation. The Worldwatch Institute says that “the world's armed forces are quite likely the single largest polluter on earth.”

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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i believe your answer is d)