Consider the following equation: 4 (3 + 5) = 12 + 20. This is an application of which property of operations
Associative property of addition
commutative property of addition
distributive property
Associative property of multiplication
Associative property of multiplication.
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Apologies for the confusion.
The equation 4(3 + 5) = 12 + 20 is actually an application of the distributive property, where the 4 is distributed to both the 3 and the 5 inside the parentheses.