A farmer ships oragnges in wooden crates. suppose each orange weighs the same amount. the total weight of a crate filled with g oranges is 24.5 pounds. wrie an equation that represents the relationship between the weight of the crate and the number of oragnes it contains. empty crate: 15lb
orange: 0.38 lb

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.