SOLUTION: Jack's online test has 8 true-false questions and 7 multiple-choice questions. Each multiple choice has 4 different answer choices. How many different choices for answering the 15

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Question 1000835: Jack's online test has 8 true-false questions and 7 multiple-choice questions. Each multiple choice has 4 different answer choices. How many different choices for answering the 15 questions are possible?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 2 ways of answering the 1st true-false question.
There are 2 ways of answering the 2nd true-false question.
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There are 2 ways of answering the 8th true-false question.

That's 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2 = 28 ways of answering the 8 
true-false questions.

For each of those ways of answering the true-false questions, 

There are 4 ways of answering the 1st multiple choice question.
There are 4 ways of answering the 2nd multiple choice question.
...
There are 4 ways of answering the 7th multiple choice question.

That's 3x3x3x3x3x3x3 = 37 ways of answering the 8 
true-false questions.

Answer: 2847 = 4194304 ways.

Edwin

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