The property of "we have no idea what you're talking about". Do you people bother to proofread these questions, or do you just paste them in and expect us to be psychic?
Okay. Activating my powers.... my psychic prediction is that the property that's illustrated is that division (or possibly subtraction, though I think that's less likely) is not associative.
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A lot of times simplifying equations can be really easy, depending on how many numbers you have however the main thing that you want to do is combine like terms meaning combine the numbers with the same variable then move on to the rest of the problem. However if you have a bigger problem then you want to use the distributive property, and example of that would be: 4(8 + 2) ...but in distributive property would also be the same as (4 * 8) + (4 * 2)
By the associative property of multiplication. 4 * 2 * 2 = 4 * (2 * 2) = 4 * 4
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Here is an example: 4/2 = 2 Commutative property is when you can move numbers around in a problem, and it wouldn't change. This is why it doesn't work in division 2/4 = 1/2 The commutative property applies to only addition and multiplication. It does not apply to division or subtraction. More examples: Addition: 2 + 3 = 3 + 2 = 5 Subtraction: 2 - 3 = -1, 3 - 2 = 1 Division: (see above) Multiplication: 3(5) = 5(3) = 15