The world could wait no longer. . while the world waited, saddam hussein met every overture of peace with open contempt.” –president h. w. bush read the quote and then fill in the missing word in the following statement. the united states and its allies launched the missile and bombing phase of the persian gulf war on january 16, 1991. this attack phase, explained in the passage, was named a. operation desert shield c. the line in the sand b. operation desert storm d. operation liberty

The answer is b: Operation Desert Storm. This military action led by the US with an international coalition was taken in order to respond to the invasion of Kuwait by the Iraqi army. Saddam Hussein, at that time Iraq's dictator, intended to take control of the many oil fields of this small Gulf country and to stop the Kuwaiti oil overproduction. The Operation Desert Storm succeeded in the liberation of Kuwait.

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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:

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