ok so like -3(-1)-1

Close, but the work is a small but wrong. -3*-1=3. But the second part (3*-1=-3) and the answer(-3) are correct.

Sorry rarinstraw I thought your answer was different. ://

this means

-3*-1   -1

and -3*-1=+3

so it is  +3-1  =  2