A) What connection can you make between the access to supplies and the size of armies?
B) What might have changed as farmland was destroyed in the South?

for A: you need more supplies for a bigger army and for B: if the are less farm land then less supplies and that is bad

Explanation:

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