Of the following, which statement or statements accurately represent possible effects of a long-term credit purchase on your credit score?

i. showing a willingness to pay high interest rates increases your score.

ii. making only minimum payments for an extended time can hurt your score.

iii. regularly paying off a credit balance can boost your score.

a.

i and iii

b.

ii only

c.

ii and iii

d.

i, ii, and iii

Option C II and III  is the right choice.

Step-by-step explanation:

The statement or statements that accurately represent possible effects of a long-term credit purchase on your credit score are :

II. Making only minimum payments for an extended time can hurt your score. (prolonged debt accumulation can lower credit scores)

III. Regularly paying off a credit balance can boost your score.

A.) perfect-square trinomial.

Step-by-step explanation:

We have been given a polynomial . We are asked to determine the factoring method that can be considered.

We can see that our given polynomial is in form , where, and .

We can rewrite our given expression as a perfect-square trinomial as:

Therefore, we will use perfect-square trinomial  to factor the given trinomial.