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tags:
  - Mathematics
  - Prealgebra
  - theorems-axioms-laws
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# The Commutative Property of Addition and Multiplication

**Let $a$, $b$ represent members of $\mathbb{W}$ or $\mathbb{Z}$ then:**

$$ a + b = b + a $$

$$ a \cdot b = b \cdot a $$