Question

use the associate property of multiplication to write an equivalent expression.
12(xy)

Answer 1

Do you recall what the associative property says?

Answer 2

i know they will involve three or more numbers

Answer 3

to associate means to group together; we can group these together in a different way, but it still stays the same value...

Answer 4

hint: move the paranthesis so that it groups another 2 numbers

Answer 5

(12)xy

Answer 6

good thought, nice effort; if 1 and 2 were meant to be seperate numbers that would have been great :)

Answer 7

Basically you can re-associate the factors of a product any way you like and you will have the same value:

\[a(bc) = a\times b \times c = (ab)c\]

Answer 8

but 12 here means the number 12 :)

Answer 9

12.x.y or 12.x(y)

Answer 10

(12x)y