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Inventory Term Rearrangement Property

A parts distributor is managing stock levels for two types of products: micro-motors (mm) and nylon gears (nn). The current warehouse inventory is represented by the expression 37m+21n+4m15n{}37m + 21n + 4m - 15n.

To simplify this total, the distributor reorganizes the terms so that like terms are adjacent to each other.

  1. State the name of the specific algebraic property of addition that allows them to change the order of the terms.
  2. Write the rearranged expression with the like terms placed next to each other.

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