He intolerable acts were passed to:

prevent a war
punish boston
increase trade

The Intolerable Acts were passed to punish Boston, especially those that participated in the Boston Tea Party.

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:

but

d

explanation: