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To calculate: The number of ways to choose a single dessert.
Answer to Problem 4OE
The number of ways are
Explanation of Solution
Given information:
Number of different flavors of ice cream are 15, number of different flavors of sherbet are 6 and frozen yogurt is available in 5 different flavors.
Formula used:
Fundamental counting principle states that if there are m ways to make a selection and n ways to make a second selection then there are
Calculation:
Consider the provided information that number of different flavors of ice cream are 15, number of different flavors of sherbet are 6 and frozen yogurt is available in 5 different flavors.
There are 15 choices between ice creams.
There are 6 choices between sherbet.
There are 5 choices between frozen yogurt.
He can choose a single dessert.
Recall that Fundamental counting principle states that if there are m ways to make a selection and n ways to make a second selection then there are
Therefore, the number of ways to select are,
Thus, the number of combinations are
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