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Auditing Ledger Adjustments

An accounting clerk is auditing a software-generated ledger adjustment represented by the mathematical expression 8(31)9{}8 - (-3 - 1) - 9. Based on the standard order of operations, briefly explain the very first step the clerk must take to simplify this expression, and state what the fully updated expression looks like immediately after completing that single step.

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