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which was one cause of the rise of the persian empire?

a) the persians forced the people the conquered to convert to zoroastrianism
b) they respected the customs and religious beliefs of the people they conquered
c) they exiled women and children from lands they conquered to persia as hostages
d) they merged religions from the lands they conquered with zoroastrian rituals

b) they respected the customs and religious beliefs of the people they conquered

Explanation:

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according to the passage the most suitable options are two. the first one is "by leading the aef to victory in several key battles" like the battle of saint- mihiel and the battle of cantigny mentioned in the passage you copied here. the second one is "by the aef and allied forces defeat germany" since the passage says that his army destroy the german resistance in the meuse- argonne offensive. and also, "by insisting that the aef operate as an independent force".

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for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: