Respuesta :

Answer:

Doesn't the student need to remove the parenthesis first?

Step-by-step explanation:

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Step-by-step explanation:

he added the -2 and 7. What he should have done was distributed that 7 to the numbers in the parenthesis (x+8).

Solution:

-2+7(x+8)

-2+7x+56

7x+54