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A school has 97 students. Twelve of those students moved away. Karen simplified the expression 97 − 12 to find the number of students left at the school. Caleb solved it in a different way, but found the correct answer. What expression did he use? 97 + 12 97 + (−12) −97 + 12 −97 + (−12)

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He would have had to use the expression,
97 + (-12)
This is because positive and a negative equal a negative.
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