SOLUTION: shante is eating a dinner in a restaurant. she orders chicken, which comes with her choice of 3 vegtables and 5 starches. how many dinner options does she have? a. 125 b. 15 c.

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Question 89824: shante is eating a dinner in a restaurant. she orders chicken, which comes with her choice of 3 vegtables and 5 starches. how many dinner options does she have?
a. 125
b. 15
c. 20
d. 75
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
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Here are all of her options

Vegetable 1: Starch 1, Starch 2, Starch 3, Starch 4, Starch 5
Vegetable 2: Starch 1, Starch 2, Starch 3, Starch 4, Starch 5
Vegetable 3: Starch 1, Starch 2, Starch 3, Starch 4, Starch 5

Here you can see that she has 15 options. Another way to find all possible combinations is to multiply 3 and 5 to get 15 (notice we simply have a 3 by 5 grid of choices)

3%2A5=15

So she has 15 choices