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Can you apply commutative and associative properties to 5x plus 10 and get 10x plus 5?
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*If* 5x + 10 is *the same as* 10x +5, you can apply commutation and association.
If they are *not* the same, you cannot apply commutation and association.
To be clear, commutation and association are mathematical rules that allow you to simplify equations/ formulae/ expressions.
But the simplification *must* give the same result as the original.
Example 3 + 7 + 4 + 5 + 1. Association lets you say this is the same as:
(3+7) + (4+5+1), which works out to (10) + (10), = 20.
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