A survey of junior high school students found that 76% of students plan on attending college. If you
pick three students at random, what are the chances
that at least two plan on attending college? Round
to the nearest percent.

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.