In your school cafeteria offers pork,beef,chicken, and fish for main dish, chop suey,pinakbet, and black beans for vegetable dishes, banana and pineapple for dessert, and tea,juice, and soft drinks for black beverage,in how many ways can you choose, your meal consisting of 1 cup of rice,1 main dish,1 vegetable dish 1 beverage,and 1 dessert?
Accepted Solution
A:
Number of ways to choose the main dish = 4.
Number of ways to choose the vegetable dish = 3.
Number of ways to choose the beverage = 3.
Number of ways to choose the desert = 2.
Therefore, the number of ways a meal consisting of 1 cup of rice,1 main dish,1 vegetable dish, 1 beverage, and 1 dessert can be chosen is given by 1 x 4 x 3 x 3 x 2 = 72 ways.