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Modeling Negative Multipliers in Financial Training

In a corporate financial training workshop, an instructor uses blue counters to represent positive credits and red counters to represent negative debits. Describe the standard procedural steps for modeling the multiplication expression (5)(3)(-5)(-3) using this counter system. In your response, clearly identify: (1) the initial state of the workspace, (2) the specific grouping of counters that must be introduced to the workspace to allow for the subtraction, (3) which specific color of counters is 'taken away', and (4) the final count and color of the remaining counters that represent the product.

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