SOLUTION: 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

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Question 118733: 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:,

The Super Breakfast allows you to select two items from the meat list. How many breakfast combinations are possible if you select one each of the eggs and toast choices and two different meat choices?
Any help would be awesome because I am stuck!
Answer by checkley71(8403) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
YOU HAVE 3 CHOICES OF EGGS, 3 CHOICES OF MEATS & 4 CHOICES OF TOAST.
BECAUSE YOU CAN CHOSE 2 OF THE 3 MEATS THERE ARE 3 CHOICES OF 2 MEATS (BS,BH,SH)
NOW YOU HAVE 3E*3M*4T=36 CHOICES IN ALL.