Question

Leo’s basketball team makes 16 points in the first game, 22 points in the second game, and 18 points points in the third game.Use the associative property of addition to show two different ways Leo can group the addends to show the total number of points

Answer 1

we know that

The associative property of addition says that changing the grouping of the addends does not change the sum

in this problem

we have

(16+22+18)=56

First way

(16+22)+18

Remember that parentheses tell us to do something first

=(38)+18

=56

Second way

16+(22+18)

Remember that parentheses tell us to do something first

=16+(40)

=56

Notice that both ways sum 56