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Evaluate the following: −3 − (−2).

A.-5
B.-1
C.1
D.-6

User Zhi Rui
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- 3 - ( -2)
= -3 + 2
= -1

correct option - B
User Whatbird
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B, -3 - (-2), you would distribute the "invisible one" that you always have on the outside of parenthesis and because of the minus "-" it would be a -1 making the simplified version be -3 + 2 (Since -1 * -2 = +2)

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