The associative property states:  In addition and multiplication, terms may be arbitrarily associated with each other through the use of parentheses

The commutative property states:  In addition and multiplication, terms may be arbitrarily interchanged, or commutated

The distributive property states:  In addition and multiplication, terms inside parentheses may be multiplied before addition.

The closure property of real numbers under addition and multiplication is a property of the set of all real numbers.

To check your understanding of these properties, try this PROPERTY QUIZ

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