Answer: 12
Step-by-step explanation: Whenever you have a minus a negative in a problem, you can change it to plus a positive.
So we can think of 7 - (-5) as 7 + (+5).
Whenever we have two negatives in a row, we can think of those
negatives as being multiplied together and a negative times a negative
will always result in a positive.
So just add 7 + 5 to get 12.
