If you have 8 shirts and 27 pairs of pants, how many different outfits could you wear?

Question

Also along the same lines, You go to a lunch buffet where there are 4 main dishes, 4 side dishes, and 8 beverages. If you get to choose one main dish, one side dish, and one beverage, how many different lunches could you have?

Answer 1

If you have 8 shirts and 27 pairs of pants you would multiply 8*27.

For the lunch buffet question you would perform a similar operation multiplying 4*4*8