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A budget analyst is simplifying the expression 7(-2) + 4(-7) - 6 to reconcile account balances. In the step where they must compute -14 + (-28), True or False: According to the rules for adding integers with the same sign, the correct procedure is to add the absolute values of these two negative numbers and keep the negative sign in the result.

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