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associative property of addition. The property that states that when adding three or more real numbers, the sum is always the same regardless of their grouping. That is,(a + b) + c = a + (b + c) Related Terms: associative property of multiplication, commutative, distributive. English | Espaol.
The associative property deals with changing groups (parentheses). You donât change the order, you just change the groups. The commutative property (like we described at the top of the math properties page) deals with the order that add or multiply numbers.