Respuesta :

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Answer:

  the correct answer is 47

Step-by-step explanation:

You are correct down to the part where you're adding the numbers.

  50 -10 +7 = 40 +7 = 47

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The sign of the 7 is positive. The minus sign only applies to 10.

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Additional comment

Here, 50 -10 is an easy sum. Sometimes it is easier to add all the positive numbers, then subtract the sum of the negative numbers. Here, that would look like ...

  (50 +7) -(10) = 57 -10 = 47