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guajiro [1.7K]
3 years ago
6

Jerome tries to find the value of the expression 3 - 6 + 5 by first applying the commutative property.He rewrites the expression

as 3 - 5 + 6.Explain what is wrong with Jerome's approach.
Mathematics
1 answer:
Afina-wow [57]3 years ago
8 0
By moving the signs he actually changed the number itself. He changed -6 from a negative to a positive and 5 from a positive to a negative. Both equations give different answers. 

Hopefully this helps :)
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