I joined Washington at Valley Forge and volunteered my years of service in the German Army to help teach the colonials military discipline. Washington would credit me with turning farmers and merchants into soldiers, who am i?

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

d. it gave farmers a way to organize for more political power