Samuel orders four DVDs from an online music store. Each DVD costs $9.67. He has a 25% discount code, and sales tax is 7%. Round sales tax amounts to the nearest cent. What is the total cost of his order?

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.