Ahistorian interviews two people who fought during a certain battle during the gulf war. one person says u. s. forces fired first, the other person says iraqi forces fired first. to try to learn what really happened, the historian should

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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

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