A major purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804 was to explore which of the following?

The primary purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804 - 1806 was to search for a water route across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This was the stated purpose of the expedition in President Jefferson's written instruction to Lewis and Clark. the other purpose, such as befriending the Native Americans and cataloging flora and fauna, were secondary.

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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