Properties of Real Numbers Vocabulary

Commutative Property of Addition

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Commutative Property of Addition

Changing the order of the addends does not change the sum.

Commutative Property of Multiplication

Changing the order of the factors does not change the product.

Associative Property of Addition

Changing the grouping of three or more addends does not change the sum.

Associative Property of Multiplication

Changing the grouping of three or more factors does not change the product.

Distributive Property

each term inside a set of parentheses can be multiplied by a factor outside the parentheses, such as a(b + c) = ab + ac

Addition Property of Zero

adding 0 to a number does not change the numbers value

Additive Inverse Property

The sum of a number and its opposite is zero.

Multiplication Property of Zero

The product of any number and zero is zero.

Multiplication Property of One

The product of any number and 1 is that number.

Multiplicative Inverse

Two numbers with a product of 1