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When auditing a corporate expense report, an accountant needs to remove a mistaken deduction of 19 dollars from a positive balance of 4 dollars. The software calculates this removal as ${}4 - (-19)$. Based on the rule for subtracting negative numbers, which expression shows the correct way to rewrite this computation by adding the opposite?

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