SOLUTION: In real life terms; what's the importance or value of knowing the communative and associative properties of an expression?? serious answers only please.

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Question 37128: In real life terms; what's the importance or value of knowing the communative and associative properties of an expression?? serious answers only please.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) About Me  (Show Source):
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Learning to generalize thinking. The process extends to many cases where
knowing a general rule will make your life easier and not knowing the
general rule will mean working much harder than you should.