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The diagram's central column features a series of arithmetic problems. The plus, minus, and times signs are already in place; you must derive the six different numbers, one per square in that column, involved in the arithmetic. Solve each problem in turn; that is, add the first number to the second, as directed; then apply that sum to the next operation; and so on. The correct result will be expressed in the entire bottom line of the puzzle. Eight answers are capitalized.

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