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This math video tutorial gives a step by step explanation to a math problem on "Inverse Property Of Addition".

Addition is the basic operation of arithmetic. In its simplest form, addition combines two numbers, the addends or terms, into a single number, the sum.

Adding more than two numbers can be viewed as repeated addition; this procedure is known as summation and includes ways to add infinitely many numbers in an infinite series; repeated addition of the number one is the most basic form of counting.

Addition is commutative and associative so the order in which the terms are added does not matter. The identity element of addition (the additive identity) is 0, that is, adding zero to any number will yield that same number. Also, the inverse element of addition (the additive inverse) is the opposite of any number, that is, adding the opposite of any number to the number itself will yield the additive identity, 0. For example, the opposite of 7 is (-7), so 7 + (-7) = 0. Addition can be given geometrically as follows.

If a and b are the lengths of two sticks, then if we place the sticks one after the other, the length of the stick thus formed will be a+b

• Associative Property of Addition
• Cummutative Property of Addition
• Identity Property of Addition
• Distributive Property of Multiplication over Addition

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