16. A newspaper surveyed its subscribers as to which section of the paper they read first. The results are below. Is it reasonable to conclude that 39.1% of the paper's subscribers read the business or sports sections first? Section
%
Front Page 25.0
Sports
25.2
Business 13.9
Comics 22.1
Horoscope 13.8

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.