If you have three flavors of ice cream at home (chocolate, vanilla, strawberry) and three toppings to choose from (caramel, sprinkles, fruit), how many different combinations are possible?
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10
9
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3
There are a few different ways to approach this problem, but one common method is to use multiplication. You can count the number of options for each choice and then multiply them together to find the total number of combinations.
For the ice cream flavor, there are 3 options. For the topping, there are also 3 options. Therefore, you can calculate the total number of combinations as:
3 (ice cream flavors) x 3 (toppings) = 9
So there are 9 different combinations of ice cream flavors and toppings possible with these options. The answer is B) 9.