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you can use the commutative property to record the terms of an expression Jane says that you can use the community property to rewrite 5m + 10 as 10m+ 5. is James correct? explained

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If we apply the commutative property to the case 5m+10, we get 10+5m,

which is different from 10m+5. So, James is incorrect.

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