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Corporate Ledger Adjustment

A corporate auditor is correcting a ledger entry where a negative adjustment of 19 dollars is being removed from a positive balance of 4 dollars, represented by the expression 4(19){}4 - (-19). According to the 'adding the opposite' rule for integer subtraction, what is the equivalent addition expression used to simplify this calculation?

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