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What does a negative sign in front of a parentheses mean
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What does a negative sign in front of a parentheses mean

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A negative sign in front of the parenthesis means to distribute the negative to all off the numbers. So a positive number becomes negative and a negative number becomes positive.
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It means that after everything within the parentheses has been solved you add the negative sign to the number
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