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Answer:

(c) commutative property of multiplication

Explanation:

The associative properties of addition and multiplication let you move parentheses:

a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c . . . . . associative property of addition

a(bc) = (ab)c . . . . . . . . . . associative property of multiplication

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The commutative properties of these operations let you change the order of the operands:

a + b = b + a . . . . . . commutative property of addition

ab = ba . . . . . . . . . commutative property of multiplication

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If we look at this last statement with the idea that a=2 and b=(x+3) we can see that it matches the given expression:

2(x+3) = (x+3)2 . . . . commutative property of multiplication

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