Acontainer was 1/2 filled with water. when 200 ml of water was poured out, it became 1/3 full. find the capacity of the container in milliliters.

the capacity of the container in milliliters would be 167ml all together 

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.