What did they do wrong?

Mathematics

1 answer:

Tatiana [17]3 years ago

5 0

They didn’t distribute the -1 (which is the “-”) correctly into the numbers in the parentheses. After distributing correctly, step 1 should be
8a+3+5a-2a

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