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Jill says he did it wrong. He should have multiplied the bottom first (3 x 5) and then multiplied by the height. Explain to Jill why Jack's method works and is equivalent to her method.
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Jill says he did it wrong. He should have multiplied the bottom first (3 x 5) and then multiplied by the height. Explain to Jill why Jack's method works and is equivalent to her method.

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Jack's method is equivalent because of the "law of commutative property", which means that multiplication problems have the same result no matter the order.

2x5 is the same as 5x2

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