Micha is getting a fountain drink. He can pick from four cup sizes, eight different drink
flavors and two different straw colors. How
many drink outcomes are possible?

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.