Annie selects two different choices and wants to know the choices.

Question

Annie can select two types of bread and five types of meat. She randomly selects one type of bread and one type of meat. How many possible choices does she have?

Answer 1

Since the choice of bread and the choice of meat can be done totally independently of each other, each choice of bread (2) can be paired with any of the choices of meat (5).  So all combinations are possible, and that's just the number of choices of bread times the number of choices of meat = 2 * 5 = 10.