A restaurant offers 6 appetizers, 8 salads, 7 entrees and 9 desserts.  In how many ways can a customer select a meal, if a meal consists of an appetizer, a salad, an entree and a dessert?

a) 30

well, it is certainly not (a) 30.

Note that you can choose any of 6 appetizers.
For each of those 6, you can pick any of 8 salads.

and so on. So, what do you think?

it should be 6x8x7x9

=2016

I need the solution

To determine the number of ways a customer can select a meal consisting of an appetizer, a salad, an entree, and a dessert, we need to multiply the number of options for each category.

The customer has 6 options for an appetizer, 8 options for a salad, 7 options for an entree, and 9 options for a dessert.

To find the total number of ways, we multiply these options together:

Total ways = 6 x 8 x 7 x 9 = 3024

Therefore, the correct answer is 3024 options for a customer to select a meal.