Question

The ____ property allows you to regroup terms using parentheses when adding or multiplying

Answer 1

"associative"

Explanation:

The associative property lets you change the grouping of terms of a sum or of a product.

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For example, you can rewrite

(5 + 4·3) -2

as

5 + (4·3 -2)

but the associative property does NOT allow you to change the grouping to ...

(5 +4)·3 -2 . . . . . not a valid rewrite