Re-written, I believe the equation is:
(W+23)+5=W+(23+5)
With this, the parenthesis have nothing multiplying into it, so we can drop the parenthesis to get:
W+23+5=W+23+5
Which is the same thing.
So I'd assume it is the Associative property, because you are combining the like terms of 23 and 5.
Hope this helps!
Its 2 and 1/3
as a decimal its 2.3333
there is no possible way it can be written as a whole number
For this case we have the following function:

By definition, the average rate of change is given by:

We evaluate the function for the given values:
For x = 7:

For x = 14:

Then, replacing values we have:
Answer:
the average rate of change from x = 7 to x = 14 is:
a. 23.22
Here's a graph of those terms.