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Properties of Multip
Properties of Multiplication
Term | Definition |
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Associative | the property in which the parenthesis move, but the numbers stay in the same order |
Commutative | the property in which the order of the numbers changes, but the answer is still the same |
Identity | the property that states that any number times 1 equals itself |
Distributive | the property in which a question may ask you to distribute a number and operation within parenthesis, or possibly break a big number down into a smaller number, breaking the problem up into two sets of parenthesis |