Use the distributive property to remove the parentheses.

-(y-2w-1)

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The distributive property states that when you have a negative sign in front of parentheses, you should distribute the negative sign to each term inside the parentheses.

So, using the distributive property to remove the parentheses, we have:

-(y-2w-1)
= -1 * (y-2w-1)
= -y + 2w + 1