SOLUTION: Kelvin is making a salad. He can pick between spinach, lettuce, or arugula as the base. He can make it with or without tomatoes, cucumbers, and croutons. Kelvin has 3 different dre

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Question 1141126: Kelvin is making a salad. He can pick between spinach, lettuce, or arugula as the base. He can make it with or without tomatoes, cucumbers, and croutons. Kelvin has 3 different dressings to pick from. How many salads can Kelvin make?
Answer by greenestamps(13200)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


3 choices for the base.

2 choices each (yes or no) for the tomatoes, cucumbers, and croutons.

3 choices for the dressing.

By the fundamental counting principle, the number of different salads is the product of all those numbers of choices.

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