Guests at a picnic try to guess the number of candies in a jar. The distribution of guesses has a mean of 858585 candies and a standard deviation of 121212 candies. Suppose the jar actually holds 105105105 candies, and we want to convert each guess to its error—that is, we'll subtract 105105105 from each guess to see how far above or how far below the guess was from the correct number.

Distributive property

the law of definite proportions states samples of a compound will always contain the same proportion of elements by mass. in other words, a given compound will always contain the same elements in the same proportions by mass.the law of multiple proportions states when two elements combine with each other to form more than one compound, then the weights of one element that combine with a fixed weight of the other are in a ratio of small whole numbers.