What is the commutative property of multiplication?

Answer 1

An operation is commutative if you can switch the operands and get the same result. That is, ! is commutative if (and only if) a ! b = b ! a. For example, multiplication of integers is commutative: 17*42 = 42*17 = 314, for example. Subtraction is not: 17 - 5 = 12, but 5 - 17 = -12.
When two numbers are multiplied together, the product is the same regardless of the order of the multiplicands. For example 4 * 2 = 2 * 4