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Explaining Account Deficits to a Trainee

A junior bookkeeping assistant is reviewing an account ledger and is confused by a transaction. The account started with a balance of {}14.65 dollars, and a charge of 20{}20 dollars was applied, which can be represented by the expression 14.65−20{}14.65 - 20. The accounting software displays the new balance as −5.35{}-5.35 dollars. As their supervisor, write a short explanation that recalls and details the exact step-by-step mathematical procedure to show how 14.65−20{}14.65 - 20 is evaluated to get −5.35{}-5.35.

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