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Please help me. this is my last problem and i’m clueless.

Please help me. this is my last problem and i’m clueless.-example-1
User Keem
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Answer:

-3

Explanation:

so you SUBSTITUTE -2 in for z

ok i think they are trying to be tricky here

so

-1 - (-(-2))

inside parentheses, the two negatives are going to cancel eachother out.

now you have

-1 - (2)

which is

-1 - 2

-1 minus 2 is -3

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