Practice problem

Associative Property — Definition & Examples

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Chris is baking some brownies. He has to first mix all the dry ingredients together. Chris uses recipes that measures each ingredient by weight.

For the dry ingredients, Chris needs flour, sugar, baking powder and cocoa powder.

Does the total weight of the dry ingredients change if:

$1)$ Chris mixes sugar and flour together, then adding it to the baking powder and cocoa powder mixture.

$2)$ Chris first mixes sugar, flour, and baking powder together, then adding cocoa powder in.

$3)$ Chris mixes flour and cocoa powder together, then adding it to the sugar and baking powder mixture.