Practice problem

Commutative Property — Definition & Examples

By Christine

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Christine
Victor Wang
Alex Federspiel
Jonathan Heller

$a, b, c$ represents $3$ numbers, we don't yet know anything about them.

We are then given this following piece of information.

In addition, $a, b, c, d$ are all positive whole numbers.

Now we have a bit more information on $a, b, c$ ... What is $c$ ? What could $a$ and $b$ be?

Which of the following is true? $\\$ Note that, for example: $2\text{ and }3$ and $3\text{ and }2$ are two identical pairs of numbers, even though they are in different orders.