SOLUTION: A student has to have an accounting course and an economics course the next term. Assuming there are no schedule conflicts, describe the possible outcomes for selecting one section

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Question 1185803: A student has to have an accounting course and an economics course the next term. Assuming there are no schedule conflicts, describe the possible outcomes for selecting one section of the accounting course and one of the economics course if there are four possible accounting sections and three possible economics sections?
Answer by ikleyn(52835) About Me  (Show Source):
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Possible outcomes are all 4*3 = 12 possible pairs (a,b),

where "a" is any of the 4 possible accounting section
and "b" is any of the 3 possible economic sections.

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