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Question 538699: Can you please help me to understand the associative and commutative property?
Answer by richard1234(7193)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Consider a binary operation * (such as addition, subtraction, multiplication).
The operation * is associative if a*(b*c) = (a*b)*c for all a,b,c. In other words, the order of which operation is done first does not matter.
The operation * is commutative if a*b = b*a. This means that the order of your arguments (a,b) does not matter.
Addition and multiplication are both associative and commutative. Note that associativity and commutativity are not limited to addition and multiplication (other operations, like vector dot products, are commutative).
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