An important effect of Common Sense was that it persuaded many — a
b
ordinary people to support independence from Great Britain
loyalists to support the king
rich merchants to leave the colonies
loyalists and patriots to unite against Great Britain
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d

Ordinary people to suppport independence from Great Britian.

a.tensions between the colonial elites and the backcountry men of virginia.

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