A farmer's annual income is represented by the variable x. The farmer will pay 25% of his income for federal taxes and 9% of his income for state taxes. Which two expressions represent the amount of money the farmer will have after paying these taxes?

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.