You have been offered $3,000 in 4 years for providing $2,000 today into a business venture with a friend. if interest rates are 10%, is this a good investment for you?

This law is sometimes called the grouping property. as you can see, regardless of how the numbers are grouped, the answer is still 13. the associative law of multiplication is similar to the same law for addition. it says that no matter how you group numbers you are multiplying together, you will get the same answer.

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