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The commutative properties apply only to addition and multiplication!

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

When we have to simplify algebraic expressions, we can often make the work easier by applying the commutative or associative property first, instead of automatically following the order of operations.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

Addition of vectors is commutative such that A + B = B + A .

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

These are the commutative properties, the associative properties, the distributive property, the identity properties, and the inverse properties.

From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015

Hence there are two species of justice, distributive and commutative.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint