7 represnts seven positive chips.
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Without altering the 7 positive chips, two positive and two negative chips will be inserted.
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∵ One positive and one negative chip cancel out each other, yielding a result of 0. So two positive and two negative chips are added)
⇒ Subtracting two negative chips we get,
∴ Answer = 9