Mr. Walker asked his students to use the associative property to find an expression that is equivalent to (13 + 15 + 20) + (20 + 47 + 18). The expressions that four students created are shown in the table below.
Expressions Generated by Students
Student
Expression
Jeremy
(20 + 13 + 15) + (20 + 47 + 18)
Layla
(20 + 47 + 18) + (13 + 15 + 20)
Keith
(13 + 20) + (20 + 47 + 18) + 15
Melinda
(13 + 15 + 20 + 20) + (47 + 18)
How many of the students correctly applied only the associative property to rewrite the expression?
one
two
three
four