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A payroll specialist uses two functions to calculate an employee's final pay: a tax-withholding function t(x)t(x) and a health insurance deduction function h(x)h(x). The specialist notices that the final amount differs depending on whether the tax is calculated before or after the insurance deduction. Which mathematical property of function composition explains why the order of these two operations, (th)(x)(t \circ h)(x) versus (ht)(x)(h \circ t)(x), affects the final result?

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