SOLUTION: A salad bar offers a base of lettuce to which tomatoes chickpeas beets pinto beans olives and green peppers can be added five salad dressings are available. How many different sala

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Question 1137754: A salad bar offers a base of lettuce to which tomatoes chickpeas beets pinto beans olives and green peppers can be added five salad dressings are available. How many different salads are possible? (assume that each salad contains at least lettuce and at the most one salad dressing)
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The customer has 2 choices ("yes" or "no") as to whether each of the 7 ingredients other than lettuce can be on the salad; and he has 6 choices for the type of salad dressing (5 kinds of dressing, or no dressing). The total number of different salads possible is

(2^7)*6 = 128*6 = 768