How much religious freedom actually existed in the English northern colonies

well, rhode island was the first one to have religious freedom because the founder, roger williams, didn't like how things were done in massachusetts. idk if this helps any but yeah

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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