Carol sells 3 flavours of ice lollies, orange, lemon and chocolate. James wants to buy 3 lollies. List all the different choices he could make.

Question

Please can u answer this please i am stook with it

Answer 1

I think you want to approach this question differently than the previous answer.

 

Let's start with what the question tells us...

- Carol has 3 flavors

- James wants 3 lollies

 

Now, what is the question asking

- What are all the different choices James could make about which lollies he could buy

 

It is possible James wants all orange lollies or all lemon.  He may want one of each or two of one and one of another.

 

Now let's start the list...

1) All 3 orange (orange, orange, orange)

2) 2 orange 1 lemon (orange, orange, lemon) this could also be written (orange, lemon, orange) or (lemon, orange, orange) but what he got was still the same

3) 2 orange 1 chocolate (orange, orange, chocolate)

4) keep going... keep switching the amounts but don't repeat a set just because it is in a different order 

Answer 2

Hi Amanda

Since you have 3 flavors of ice lollies, and James wants to 3 lollies, the number of different choices are

 

 {Orange, Orange,Orange}          {Lemon, Lemon, Lemon}        {Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate}

 {Orange, Orange, Lemon}          {Lemon, Lemon, Orange}       {Chocolate, Chocolate, Orange}

 {Orange, Orange, Chocolate}      {Lemon, Lemon, Chocolate}    {Chocolate, Chocolate, Lemon}

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 {Orange,Lemon, Chocolate}       {Lemon, Orange, Chocolate}    {Chocolate, Orange, Lemon}

 are the same