Question

When a group of quantities connected by operators, such as addition or multiplication, gives the same result whatever the order of the quantities involved,
we are seeing the _ property at work.

Answer 1

When a group of quantities connected by operators gives the same result regardless of the order of the quantities involved, we are seeing the **commutative** property at work. This property applies to addition and multiplication in mathematics, where changing the order of the numbers does not affect the outcome (e.g., \( a + b = b + a \) and \( a \times b = b \times a \)).