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What property is used to say that the expressions 5x + 7 - 2x is equivalent to the expression 5x - 2x + 7?

Commutative, distributive, associative or identity

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The commutative property says that 5x + 7 - 2x = 5x - 2x + 7.

The order does not matter and does not change the answer.
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i want to say it is the Commutative Laws
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