1. get rid of your parenthesis
2. in order to do so you must look inside of the parenthesis and check if you have any like terms if so combine them
3. next use the distribution property or otherwise known as the rainbow
4. if you have an exponent to the right of your parenthesis then use the exponent rule
5. combine like terms by adding coefficients
6. finally combine the constants
Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:
You factor out the common term first.
You should get the equation below.

then you get rid of the negative inside
and will be simplified to this.

Answer:
B
Step-by-step explanation:
2x+8=9
you want to isolate the variable so you subract 8 from both sides
2x=1
now you want x by itself so you divide by 2 on both sides
x=1/2 or x=0.5
Hope this helped :)