first, negatives and negatives when added are just added and the negative sign is added. That would be -5/4. Then, You would add 12. To make it easier if this is new to you, you could change 12 to 48/4 and get 43/4. Finally, add -6. To make this easier, make -6, -24/4. Add 43/4 with -23/4 and get 19/4 or
