What is American exceptionalism? A. the belief that America should be treated better than other countries
B. the belief that America is different from the rest of the world
C. the belief that America should be exempt from environmental regulations
D. the believe that America is a divinely blessed nation

B. the belief that America is different from the rest of the world.

Explanation

American exceptionalism is the idea that the US is different from the rest of the world because it is said that it was founded on equality, liberty, etc.

i believe the answer is:

-   william jennings bryan is a democrat while mckinley was a republican

at that time, the segment of population that choose for democratic party were the voters with low economic background and vice versa

- william jennings has support of populists and wants to have inflation to farmers while mckinley has support of bankers and businessmen , doesn't want inflation

the fixed value of gold make the large business able to stack up their gold without   being worried that it would devaluated.

- william jennings supported the silver standard while mckinley supported the gold standard

according to jenning, using other metal beside gold could the poor people to have more purchasing power and them advance in the society.

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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