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Inventory Adjustment Calculation

A warehouse supervisor is recording stock changes in a digital log. The log entry for a specific item describes the adjustment as: 'the sum of 8 and -12, increased by 3.' Translate this verbal instruction into an algebraic expression and calculate the final simplified numerical value of the adjustment.

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