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Name the property of equality that justifies the following statement: if p = q then p + s = q + s

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If p = q, then p + s = q + s.

To get from p = q to p + s = q + s, we have to add s to both sides using the Addition Property of Equality.

Therefore, the property would be the Addition Property of Equality.

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