A gerund looks like a verb but functions the same way as a noun. But, why does it look like verbs? What does it have in a sentence that a verb does? OBJECT is your answer. They both have objects. For instance, in the sentence, "I dropped my coffee mug" The gerund is "dropped" and it dropped an object (mug). Therefore, your answer is Object.
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Answer:

Explanation:
The commutative property for the addition states that when the order of two (or more) numbers is changed, the result of the addition does not change.
Mathematically, this means that:

where a, b are two numbers.
In this problem, we have the following addition:

By applying the commutative property, we can swap the order of the two variables y and j, and the result will remain the same. So we can write:
