Tonya bought a blanket for $32,53, a flag for $10.25, and a glove for $17.75. She paid $50 and the rest she borrowed from her friend. If Tonya got $9.47 in change from the cashier, how much did
she borrow from her friend to pay for all the items?
Tonya borrowed $_[from her friend to pay for all the items.

It will be $109 that she had borrowed from the friend. :)

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.