SOLUTION: At a Phil's Cafe, a dinner meal is made up of an appetizer, a main course, a dessert and a drink. The choices for the appetizer are soup or salad; for the main course are chicken,

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Question 1162111: At a Phil's Cafe, a dinner meal is made up of an appetizer, a main course, a dessert and a drink. The choices for the appetizer are soup or salad; for the main course are chicken, fish, steak or lobster; for the dessert are ice cream, pie, sorbet, or a pastry; the drinks are coffee, tea or milk. How many different dinner meals are possible?
Multiple choice answers:

a. 16
b. 52
c. 48
d. 96
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The number of appetizers times the number of main courses times the number of desserts times the number of drinks. Just do the arithmetic.


John

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