The associative property rearranges the grouping of the expression.
The commutative property rearranges the order of terms in an expression.
The distributive property applies to terms outside of parenthesis-those terms will multiply to the terms in the parenthesis.
The inverse property suggests that any number, expression, or value multiplies by 1 will always remain as the same number, expression or value.
According to this, A would be the best answer, as the parentheses are regrouped.