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.