About how many years has the earth been around?

he believed that strong monarchies would lead to social and political stability.

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

the correct answer is b, "fertility rates are increasing, so populations will grow more quickly in the future."