SOLUTION: A car is available is three types of models and in three colors. In how many cobinations can you buy the car?

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Question 88729: A car is available is three types of models and in three colors. In how many cobinations can you buy the car?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(21667) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Say we have blue, green, and red

Model A- blue, green, red
Model B- blue, green, red
Model C- blue, green, red

So we can see that we have 9 choices. Another way we could do this is to multiply the number of models by the colors like this

3%2A3=9

and once again we get 9 choices