Production Batch Measurement Simplification
A production associate at an artisanal cosmetics company is preparing a special batch of botanical body lotion. They need to combine three organic liquid extracts whose quantities are given by the expression liters.
To make the calculation easier to perform mentally, the associate decides to change the grouping of the terms to add the fractions with identical denominators first.
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State the name of the mathematical property of addition that justifies changing the grouping from to .
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Compute the final simplified total volume of the liquid extracts as an improper fraction of a liter.
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