What is the assossiative property?

Answer 1

It means that for certain operations, if the operation appears twice, it doesn't matter in which order you do the operation. For example, for the common addition of real numbers:(a + b) + c = a + (b + c)

Here is an example with numbers:

(1 + 5) + 11 = 1 + (5 + 11)

The parentheses indicate which addition should be done first.

Answer 2

The associative property, with respect to addition states that if x, y and z are three numbers then(x + y) + z = x + (y + z)