What was the main concern with the first draft of the articles of confederation?

a. too much power in the central government
b. too much power in the state governments
c. too little power for the courts
d. a too small legislature

The correct answer is B) too much power in the state governments.

The Articles of Confederation was America's first attempt at a Constitution. Considering their negative experience with King George III and a large central government, the writers of the Articles of Confederation made it so that the US gave almost all the power to state governments.

This idea ended up working out terribly. The federal government could not collect taxes, could not establish a national currency (aka money), and struggled to build a militia. This was all because state governments had the ability to ignore the wishes of the federal government. The Articles of Confederation were replaced with our current US Constitution after about a decade.

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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:

but