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No. There is a property of numbers called the distributive property that proves this wrong. a- ( b - c) is NOT the same as (a-b) -c because:

a-(b-c) = a-b+c by the distributive property

a-b+c = (a-b) + c by the definition of ()

(a-b)+c is not always equal to (a-b)-c

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