Three friends’ meals at a restaurant cost $13, $14, and $11. Use parentheses to write two different expressions to show how much the friends spent in all. Which property does your pair of expressions demonstrate?
Jacob is designing an aquarium for a doctor’s office. He plans to buy 6 red blond guppies, 1 blue neon guppy, and 1 yellow guppy. The table shows the price list for the guppies. How much will the guppies for the aquarium cost?
Sylvia bought 8 tickets to a concert. Each ticket costs $18. To find the total cost in dollars, she added the product \(8 \times 10\) to the product \(8 \times 8\), for a total of 144. Which property did Sylvia use?
Sense or Nonsense? Julie wrote (15 - 6) - 3 = 15 - (6 - 3). Is Julie’s equation sense or nonsense? Do you think the Associative Property works for subtraction? Explain.