Chen bought a basketball for $23,

3 baseball caps, and a pair of

running shoes for $37. To find the

total cost in dollars, he wrote

23 + 30 + 37 = 23 + 37 + 3d.

Which property does the equation

show?

A Associative Property of Addition

B Commutative Property of Addition

c Distributive Property

D Identity Property of 1

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Mathematics

Zoe Wilkins

20 September, 19:52

Chen bought a basketball for $23,

3 baseball caps, and a pair of

running shoes for $37. To find the

total cost in dollars, he wrote

23 + 30 + 37 = 23 + 37 + 3d.

Which property does the equation

show?

A Associative Property of Addition

B Commutative Property of Addition

c Distributive Property

D Identity Property of 1

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Kiley · Answer 1

Is this a typo? You wrote 3d. If you meant to write 30, it would be commutative property since you are changing the order but not the numbers themselves, simply rearranging them