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According the associative property of multiplication, given any three elements a, b and c belonging to a set,

(ab)c = a(bc) and so without ambiguity either can be written as abc.

By contrast, (a/b)/c is not equal to a/(b/c). The first is a/bc, the second is ac/b which is true only if c2 = 1 ie c = -1 or c = 1

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