3. A jet is heading due north (which implies to the North) with an airspeed of mph, and the wind is blowing to the
southeast (indicates it is blowing at a degree angle from the southeast) at mph. What is the resultant speed of the jet?

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.