When a group of quantities connected by operators, such as addition or multiplication, gives the same result whatever the order of the quantities involved,

Question

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 \( a \times b = b \times a \)).