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Commutative Property of Addition
The commutative property of addition states that the order in which two numbers are added does not affect the sum. For any real numbers and :
For example, and , so . Regardless of which addend comes first, the total is always the same. The word "commutative" comes from "commute," meaning to move or swap — the addends can swap places without changing the result.
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