3. Which of the following sets of physical geographic factors were common among most early settlements of people?

Regions with fertile soil and large fresh water supplies

Explanation:

discovery of cape town-portuguese empire

development of africans language-dutch east india company

introduction of railway-british empire

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