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Regrouping the sum of -3, -2 and -5 does not change the total, because addition is:

AAssociative
BCommutative
CDistributive
DSubstantive
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Associative
1. Associativity lets you shift the brackets freely. 2. Both groupings give the same total of -10. 3. So addition is associative. _Source: syllabus Mathematics Class VII, Chapter 1, Integers._
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