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Associative and Distributive properties: 

Associative property of addition:

NOTE: One might think that you can also apply associative property to subtraction. This is not true. Take a look. To convince yourself just plug in: a = 1, b = 2, c = 3 into the following formula. Or you can plug in any other numbers.

Associative property of multiplication:

NOTE: Once again, don’t think that you can have associative property of division, just because there is associative property for multiplication. That is a false reasoning. If you cannot see this right away just go ahead and plug in: a = 1, b = 2, c = 3 into the following formula. Also here you can plug in any other numbers.

Distributive property:

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