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Can you find the error?

Can you find the error?-example-1
User Nusantara
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Answer:

-32 - 8 = -40

Step-by-step explanation: basicly for 1 instead of putting 3 and 2 together he multiplyed then minus 8

then for 2 he did -6 and -8

then: 14............

User Magnolia
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Both step 1 and step 2 were correct with the process of moving the value of x into the place of x and continuing to solve. However, step 3 is incorrect because when it is a negative value being subtracted by another negative value, it remains a negative. So the answer is -14 instead of 14.

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