Isabel doubled her recipe for chocolate chip cookies. After her
brothers ate 8 cookies, she set aside half
of the remaining cookies for a school
party. Isabel then gave 2 dozen cookies
to her neighbor. She had 12 cookies left
over. How many cookies does one recipe make.

Idon’t know how to do that

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.