A restaurant offers the following choices for breakfast:
Eggs: scrambled, fried, or poached
Meat: bacon, sausage, or ham
Toast: wheat, white, rye, or pumpernickel
Here is the question:,
How many different breakfast combinations are possible if one item is selected from each list of eggs, meat, and toast choices?
Please help any help would be awesome!
There are 3 ways to choose a way to cook the eggs.
For each of the 3 choices of a way to cook the eggs,
there are 3 choices of meats. That's 3x3 or 9 ways
to choose the ways to cook the eggs, and a meat.
For each of the 3x3 or 9 choices of a way to cook
the eggs and a meat, there are 4 choices of toasts.
That's 3x3x4 or 36 ways to choose the ways to cook
the eggs, a meat, and toast.
Listed below are all 36 breakfast choices:
1. Scrambled eggs, bacon, and wheat toast.
2. Scrambled eggs, bacon, and white toast.
3. Scrambled eggs, bacon, and rye toast.
4. Scrambled eggs, bacon, and pumpernickel toast.
5. Scrambled eggs, sausage, and wheat toast.
6. Scrambled eggs, sausage, and white toast.
7. Scrambled eggs, sausage, and rye toast.
8. Scrambled eggs, sausage, and pumpernickel toast.
9. Scrambled eggs, ham, and wheat toast.
10. Scrambled eggs, ham, and white toast.
11. Scrambled eggs, ham, and rye toast.
12. Scrambled eggs, ham, and pumpernickel toast.
13. Fried eggs, bacon, and wheat toast.
14. Fried eggs, bacon, and white toast.
15. Fried eggs, bacon, and rye toast.
16. Fried eggs, bacon, and pumpernickel toast.
17. Fried eggs, sausage, and wheat toast.
18. Fried eggs, sausage, and white toast.
19. Fried eggs, sausage, and rye toast.
20. Fried eggs, sausage, and pumpernickel toast.
21. Fried eggs, ham, and wheat toast.
22. Fried eggs, ham, and white toast.
23. Fried eggs, ham, and rye toast.
24. Fried eggs, ham, and pumpernickel toast.
25. Poached eggs, bacon, and wheat toast.
26. Poached eggs, bacon, and white toast.
27. Poached eggs, bacon, and rye toast.
28. Poached eggs, bacon, and pumpernickel toast.
29. Poached eggs, sausage, and wheat toast.
30. Poached eggs, sausage, and white toast.
31. Poached eggs, sausage, and rye toast.
32. Poached eggs, sausage, and pumpernickel toast.
33. Poached eggs, ham, and wheat toast.
34. Poached eggs, ham, and white toast.
35. Poached eggs, ham, and rye toast.
36. Poached eggs, ham, and pumpernickel toast.
Edwin