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The associate property tells us that if we have three or more terms, the order that we add or multiply them in does not matter.
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We can multiply the first two terms first and then the third term, or we can multiply the last terms and then the first one and still get the same answer.
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So as an example, if we had two times three times four, and we had our first two terms, in parentheses, we would get 6 times 4, which is 24.
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And if we had 2 times 3 times 4, we would get 2 times 12, which is 24.
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So we get the same answer.
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However, with subtraction, we do not have, we do not use the associated property because we won't get the same answers in these two situations with subtraction...