C, A, D, B, E.
Cancelling is when you get rid of things on the same side of the variable, with the end goal being to have the variable isolated.
The distributive property tells us to multiply everything inside of parentheses by the term outside of them.
The multiplicative inverse property allows us to multiply or divide in order to cancel a number beside a variable.
Combining like terms makes a problem shorter.
We say "all real numbers" when ever possible real number works.