eams including reduction, decomposition, merging processes, pipelines and performance.</i><br /></p>

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            <p><b>1. The correct answer is B.</b><br /> Sums are associative operations, therefore, the <code>reduce()</code> method ensures that the stream can be processed in parallel while preserving the order of its elements.</p>

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