Answer
$-24^\circ 11'$
Work Step by Step
In this kind of subtraction, we subtract the degrees from the degrees and the minutes from the minutes:
$47^\circ29'-71^\circ 18'=(47-71)^\circ+(29-18)'=-24^\circ 11'$
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