If you have 3 or more F's in the seventh grade will you get held back? Or can you tell me how many F's you need to get held back.?

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Explanation:

it depends on your school district and how they run things over where you go to school. But if you have three report cards all with an F in math, I think it's safe to say you'll need to attend summer school or you'll have to re-take 7th grade math during 8th grade. I'm not sure if you'll be held back a whole grade, but I wouldn't know. You can ask your school counselor(s) for advice. I hope everything works out!

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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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