Question

Mr. kendrick made three deposits to his account in the order: $460, $185 , $240. show how to use the commutative property to find the sum of the deposits mentally

Answer 1

The answer is;

$185 + $460 + $240
(you can put those 3 numbers in any order)

=

$885

Answer 2

Mrs. Kendrick made three deposits to his account in the order:

$460, $185 , $240.

We have to use use the commutative property to find the sum of the deposits.

Commutative property states:

" The order of addition does not matter".

Mathematically, it states that if 'a' and 'b' are any two numbers.

Then whether we add 'a' to 'b' or 'b' to 'a' , we get the same answer.

Similarly in this case, we have to find out the total deposit in his account.

So, we will add $460, $185 and $240. We can add these three amounts in any of the order we want to.

So, Total amount = $460 + $185 + $240.

= $ 885

Total amount deposited in Kendrick's account is $885.