Give me explain associative property of addition? ?

Tomas is making trail mix using granola and walnuts. he can spend a total of $12 on the ingredients. he buys 3 pounds of granola that costs $2.00 per pound. the walnuts cost $6 per pound. he uses the equation to represent the total cost, where x represents the number of pounds of granola and y represents the number of pounds of walnuts. he solves the equation for y, the number of pounds of walnuts he can buy. answer- b tomas added 6 to both sides of the equation instead of subtracting 6. just took the test

It is given that the quadratic equation hx²-3x+k=0, where h and k are constants, has roots [tex] \beta \: and \: 2 \beta [/tex]express h in terms of k

Can some one explain this i got sent this. is this a threat i’m scared