Which of the following best states the central disagreement between abraham lincoln and stephen douglas on the issue of slavery?
whether it should be abolished
whether it should be discouraged
whether it should be permitted to spread
whether it should be legal across the us

The best statement for central disagreement between Abraham and Stephen Douglas is whether it should be permitted to spread.

There was series of debate between LIncoln and Stephen in 1858, whereby each wanted to win the Illinois General Assembly control though Illinois was a free state.

All those debates which were held they discussed about slavery in united states. Stephen was the first senate to be in United States in 1846.

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