Why didn’t the South develop a more robust manufacturing base?
A) The South had a shortage of factory workers.
B) Farming required manufactured few tools or machines.
C)Southern investors were more interested in land than industry.
D) Southern agriculture was more profitable than manufacturing.

C)

Explanation:

according to me C is the right answer

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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:

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