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Correct steps, but wrong names. Where you said "multiplication" is actually still parentheses - that first step isn't finished until you have removed them (which isn't until after you have distributed and simplified, which you did do correctly).
Yes, I know, and as a Maths teacher I am well and truly sick of hearing "but Google says...", and so I wrote this thread to try and get developers to fix their damn calculators.