At a local restaurant, a new dinner menu is available that offers 4 courses — an appetizer, a salad, a main dish, and a dessert — all for one price. there are 5 appetizers, 2 salads, 3 main dishes, and 5 desserts. how many dinner outcomes are possible?

For this type of problem, all you have to do is multiply everything together: 7*2*4*4 = 224 possible dinner outcomes For additional explanation: Let's just look at the 4 main dishes and the 4 desserts. For every main dish, there are 4 desserts. So you would multiply 4 and 4 to get 16 possible main dishes/desserts outcomes. I hope this helps!