📊🤔 Explore B - Lesson 3.18 Associative Property of Multiplication

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Solve the problem. Think about how you solved it and write down your solution?

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Part 1

a) One possible solution:

Write a multiplication equation with the parentheses to show which product is found first.

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b) Another possible solution:

Write a multiplication equation with the parentheses to show which product is found first.

c) What changed from the first solution to the second solution?

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Part 3

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