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What is the property that allows you move the parentheses in a problem and still get the same answer

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The associative property states that you can add or multiply regardless of how the numbers are grouped. By"grouped" we mean 'how you use parenthesis'. In other words, if you are adding or multiplying it does not matter where you put the parenthesis
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