Question

The smith family is shopping for a new car and they are basing decision on color and style. Explain how many color choices and how many style choices they might have if there are 8 possible outcomes. Justify your answer

Answer 1

Sample response: The Smith family has 2 choices to make, color

and style. By the fundamental counting principle, the product of the

number of choices of color and style must equal 8. So, there could be 1

color and 8 style choices, 2 colors and 4 styles, 4 colors and 2 styles,

or 8 colors and 1 style.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Either there are 2 color choices and 4 styles to choose
or 4 color choices and 2 styles to choose