The cost in dollars of bowling at the local bowling alley, f(x), including shoe rental, is a linear function of x, the number of games bowled. If f(x)
changes by 5 when x changes by 2, what is the rate of change of the cost
in dollars with respect to the number of games bowled? *

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.