Question

Stefano owns a restaurant where his customers create their own pasta dishes. The customer chooses exactly one type of noodle, sauce, vegetable, and meat. The following table shows the options available to customers. How many different pasta dishes can customers create?​

Answer 1

180 options

Step-by-step explanation:180 options.

Answer 2

180 different pasta dishes

Explanation:

The easiest and quickest way to find the number of possible combinations where repetition is not allowed is to take the number total number of each option and multiply them together.

Noodle Options : 3

Sauce Options: 3

Vegetable Options: 4

Meat options: 5

So that will be:

Possible Combinations = 3 x 3 x 4 x 5

Possible Combinations = 180 different pasta dishes