Respuesta :

Answer:

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

Step-by-step explanation:

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