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Question

a dinner meal is made up of an appetizer a main course a dessert and a drink The choices for the appetizer are soup or salad for the main course are chicken, fish, steak or lobster; for the dessert are ice cream, pie, sorbet, or a pastry; the drinks are coffee, tea or milk. How many different dinner meals are possible?

a. 96

b. 52

c. 48

d. 16

Answer 1

Consider an easier problem to learn how to do this kind of problem.

Consider just the appetizer and main course. Then, draw the choices like a tree branching out because this is how a person could choose.

chicken

soup fish

steak

lobster

start

chicken

salad fish

steak

lobster

The way to write this is (2) * (4) = 8 branches.

To solve the initial problem, you just keep branching out.

2 * 4 * 4 * 3