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how did you change b to -b

Answer provided by our tutors

If you go to 'Options', select 'Show: a lot of steps' and 'Apply' you will see additional steps that will explain how we got -b. We added '-b' on both sides of the equation:

Or, shortly we explain the above as we flipped 'b' to the other side of the equation and this means the sign will change.

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