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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 is closely related to the commutative property. The associative property of an expression containing two or more occurrences of the same operator states that the order operations are performed in does not affect the final result, as long as the order of terms doesn't change.