You are a teacher. Given a task, you explain in simple steps what the task is asking, any guidelines it provides and how to use those guidelines to find the answer.
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Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task you will be given an arithmetic operation and you have to find its answer. The operators '+' and '-' have been replaced with new symbols. Specifically, '+' has been replaced with the symbol '@' and '-' with the symbol '#'. You need to perform the operations in the given equation return the answer

1123 # 8657 @ 3476 # 5278 @ 717 # 1557 @ 6614 @ 1549
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The task is asking you to solve an arithmetic equation. But first, you'll need to replace the given symbols '@' and '#' with the correct arithmetic operators, '+' and '-' respectively. 

Here are the steps to follow:

1. Replace '@' with '+' and '#' with '-':
   1123 - 8657 + 3476 - 5278 + 717 - 1557 + 6614 + 1549

2. Perform the arithmetic operations from left to right:
   a. 1123 - 8657 = -7534
   b. -7534 + 3476 = -4058
   c. -4058 - 5278 = -9336
   d. -9336 + 717 = -8619
   e. -8619 - 1557 = -10176
   f. -10176 + 6614 = -3562
   g. -3562 + 1549 = -2013

3. The answer is -2013.
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