use the associative property addition to rewrite the expression (7+8)+6 as an equivalent expression

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Using the associative property of addition, which states that the way in which numbers are grouped does not change their sum, we can rewrite the expression \((7 + 8) + 6\) as \(7 + (8 + 6)\).

Thus, the equivalent expression is:

\[ 7 + (8 + 6) \]