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CBSE Class 8 Maths
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Closure, Commutativity, Associativity, and Distributive Properties General Meaning

  • A set of numbers is closed under an operation if performing that operation on any two numbers in the set results in a number that also belongs to the set.

closure property

  • An operation is commutative if changing the order of numbers does not change the result.

Commutative Property

  • An operation is associative if the way numbers are grouped does not affect the result.

Associative Property

  • The distributive property links multiplication with addition or subtraction.

distributive Property