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Suppose you have a choice of vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry for ice cream, a choice of peanuts or walnuts for chopped nuts, and a choice of hot fudge or marshmallow for topping. If you must order one item from each category, how many different sundaes are possible?

User Omer Iqbal
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Answer:

12 ways

Explanation:

Given that:

Number of ice cream choices = 3

Number of hopped nut choices = 2

Number of topping choices = 2

The number of possible sundaes that can be made if one item must be ordered from each of tbe choices Given bove.

Number of different choices = 3 * 2 * 2 = 12

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