Using this number cube and spinner, which simulation would help you answer this question?

Over the past 50 years, records for one northwest city show that snow fell on the first day of winter 16 of the time. If you choose a year at random, what are the chances that the first day of winter will be a snowy Monday?

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.