Read this excerpt from "Birdfoot's Grampa.” The old man must have stopped our car two dozen times to climb out and gather into his hands the small toads blinded by our lights and leaping, live drops of rain. What are readers most likely to infer from the phrase "blinded by our lights”? A. The action in the poem takes place at night. B. The weather makes the toads difficult to see. C. Another car is coming around the bend. D. Grampa is shining a lantern to see the toads.

I believe it's a, it can't be B because it doesnt mention rain in the phrase given.

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

your answer is 1930's

explanation

this is just around the time the great depression was starting and putting the us ecnomy into ecnomic failure causing the goverment to take a much larger rule to try and pieace it back together