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Property Identification in Warehouse Logistics

A warehouse supervisor is calculating the total number of items in a shipment. There are 6 containers, each holding 3 crates, and each crate contains an unknown number of items, x. The supervisor writes the expression as 6(3x) but then changes the grouping to (6 * 3)x to calculate the total number of crates first. What is the name of the mathematical property that allows the supervisor to change the grouping of these factors?

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