-23 is a negative number so that means 7 is a greater number. any number with a minus sign like this - means it’s a negative number, so any number that you have to compare it to and if that number has nothing before or after it, then that would be the greater number
Answer
-4y+5
Explanation
You add -2y and -2y which equals -4y, then you add 12 and -7 which equals 5, then just put them in order as they appear in the equation.
Those numbers are called Compatible Numbers