Use the Fundamental Counting Principle to solve Exercises 29–40.
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Use the Fundamental Counting Principle to solve Exercises 29–40.

An ice cream store sells two drinks (sodas or milk shakes) in four sizes (small, medium, large, or jumbo) and five flavors (vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, coffee, or pistachio). In how many ways can a customer order a drink?

Accepted Answer

Hey everyone here we are asked to determine how many ways a shirt can be bought from this shop. So our first step here is to identify each of the different variations we have in the shirts. So we're first told we have three different sizes, small, medium and large. And we also have four different types of shirts which are polo, sleeveless, crew neck and V neck. And we also have five different color options, gray, blue, black, red and pink. So to solve this problem here, we need to recall the fundamental counting principle which tells us that the number of ways in which a series of successive things can occur is found by multiplying the number of ways in which each thing can occur. So basically all we have to do is multiply each amount of variations. So we'll just have three times four Times five. And with this we're multiplying again the amount of each variation we have and now multiplying these terms together we see that we have 60 different ways a shirt can be bought, leaving us with answer choice. D. Thanks for watching. I hope you found this video helpful and I'll see you again next time

Use the Fundamental Counting Principle to solve Exercises 29–40. An ice cream store sells two drinks (sodas or milk shakes) in four sizes (small, medium, large, or jumbo) and five flavors (vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, coffee, or pistachio). In how many ways can a customer order a drink?

Key Concepts

Fundamental Counting Principle

Combinations of Choices

Multiplicative Counting

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