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A retail manager is reconciling a cash drawer using the expression $7 - (-4 - 3) - 9 to determine a final balance adjustment. True or False: According to mathematical rules for simplifying expressions, the first step is to calculate $7 - (-4) because subtraction is generally performed from left to right.

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