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Aggregating Departmental Budget Deficits

An operations manager is reviewing a monthly budget report that shows two separate negative adjustments for the logistics department: a -\500chargeforunplannedmaintenanceandacharge for unplanned maintenance and a-$300$ charge for shipping surcharges. To determine the total impact on the budget, the manager must combine these two values using the standard rule for adding integers with the same sign. Describe the mathematical procedure required by this rule and identify what the sign of the final sum will be.

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