The associative property is helpful while adding or multiplying multiple numbers. By grouping, we can create smaller components to solve. It makes the calculations of addition or multiplication of multiple numbers easier and faster. Here, adding 17 and 3 gives 20.
the identity property of 1 says that any number multiplied by 1 keeps its identity. In other words, any number multiplied by 1 stays the same. The reason the number stays the same is because multiplying by 1 means we have 1 copy of the number.
