What is the commutative property?

Answer 1

The commutative property involves the condition that a group of quantities connected by operators gives the same result whatever the order of the quantities involved.

a × b = b × a

a + b = b + a

if you change the order of a problem it doesn't change the value

Answer 2

Commutative Property* But in mathematics an operation is commutativeif changing the order of the operands does not change the end result. It is a fundamental property of many binary operations, and many mathematical proofs depend on it. The commutativity of simple operations, such as multiplication and addition of numbers, was for many years implicitly assumed and the property was not named until the 19th century when mathematics started to become formalized. By contrast, division andsubtraction are notcommutative.