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12 is 3 lots of 4.

12 thirds is one third of 12 and so it is one third of (3 lots of 4)

by the associative property of multiplication, this is (one third of 3) lots of 4

But one third of 3 is 1, so it is 1 lot of 4, which is 4.

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