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Explain how the associative property can be used to solve this problem. 8/9 / 7/5* 3/16

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The associative property deals with parentheses, so you can use them to put around the numbers. You can either do (8/9 / 7/5)*3/16 OR 8/9 / (7/5*3/16)
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