In your school cafeteria offers pork, beef, chicken, and fish for main dish, chop suey, pinakbet, and black beans for vegetable dishes, banana and pineapple for dessert, and tea, juice, and soft drinks for black beverage, in how many ways can you choose, your meal consisting of 1 cup of rice,1 main dish,1 vegetable dish 1 beverage, and 1 dessert?

Number of ways to choose the main dish = 4.

Number of ways to choose the vegetable dish = 3.

Number of ways to choose the beverage = 3.

Number of ways to choose the desert = 2.

Therefore, the number of ways a meal consisting of 1 cup of rice,1 main dish,1 vegetable dish, 1 beverage, and 1 dessert can be chosen is given by 1 x 4 x 3 x 3 x 2 = 72 ways.

You can use the multiplication rule which says that if there are a ways to do a thing and b ways to do another thing, then there are total a.b ways to do them both.

The total ways for choosing the meal consisting of 1 cup of rice,1 main dish,1 vegetable dish 1 beverage,and 1 dessert is  72

What is the rule of product or multiplication rule?

According to this, if there are a ways to do a thing and b ways to do another thing, then there are total a.b ways to do them both.

How many ways are there to choose the needed items?
Cup of rice can be chosen in 1 way.

1 Main dish can be chosen in 4 different ways as there are four items available to choose from.

1 vegetable dish can be chosen in 3 ways as there are three items to chose from.

1  beverage can be chosen in 3 ways.

1 dessert can be chosen in 2 ways.

Using the multiplication rule here

The number of ways a meal consisting of 1 cup of rice,1 main dish,1 vegetable dish 1 beverage,and 1 dessert is chosen by

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