SOLUTION: What do you do when there is minus before parentheses. -(4)

SOLUTION: What do you do when there is minus before parentheses. -(4)

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Question 489176: What do you do when there is minus before parentheses. -(4)
Answer by rfer(16322) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Multiply by -1
It is the same as a -1 being there.
-1(4)=-4

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