In Mathematics, ASSOCIATIVE LAW is applied to the addition and multiplication of three numbers. It says, if a, b and c are three numbers, then; a (b c) = (a b) c a.(b.c) = (a.b).c Thus, by the above expression, we can understand that it does not matter how we group or associate the numbers in addition and multiplication. The associative law holds only for the addition and multiplication of all the real numbers but not for subtraction and division just as we saw in the COMMUTATIVE LAW. Ps: There