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associative property of addition. The property that states that when adding three or more real numbers, the sum is always the same regardless of their grouping. That is,(a + b) + c = a + (b + c) Related Terms: associative property of multiplication, commutative, distributive. English | Espaol.
, giving 16. We say that the multiplication operator (. ) has higher precedence or priority than the addition operator (. ), so the multiplication must be performed first. Operator associativity is why the expression. is calculated as. , giving 3, and and not as. , giving 7. We say that the subtraction operator (. ) is left associative, so the left subtraction must be performed first. When we can't decide by operator precedence alone in which order to calculate an expression, we must use associativity.