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General Ledger Audit Expression Recall

You are working as an accounts receivable clerk, and your company's automated ledger uses absolute value formulas to verify manual adjustment entries. A colleague manually enters a ledger shortage of 9{}-9 dollars, which the automated audit script checks using the formula 9{}-|-9|.

Write a brief essay recalling the precise step-by-step mathematical procedure to simplify the audit expression 9{}-|-9| and compare it to the manual entry of 9{}-9. In your response, clearly state:

  1. How the absolute value part, 9|-9|, is evaluated and the reasoning behind its result based on distance from zero.
  2. How the negative sign outside the absolute value bars is applied to that result.
  3. The final simplified numerical value of the audit expression.
  4. The final comparative relationship (greater than, less than, or equal to) between the ledger entry of 9{}-9 and the simplified audit expression of 9{}-|-9|.

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