Diego bought 488 yogurt bars in 4 different flavors. He bought the same number of each flavor how many of each flavor did he buy?

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.