Question

when making an ice cream sundae, you have a choice of 4 types of ice cream flavors: chocolate (C) vanilla (V) Moose tracks (M) or dark chocolate (D) a choice of 2 types of sauces: hot fudge (H) or butterscotch (B) and a choice of 2 types of toppings: whipped cream (W) or fruit (F) if you are choosing only one of each, list the combinations of ice cream flavors, sauces, and toppings you could pick from

Answer 1

The combination is given by the number of types of ice cream flavors multiplied by the number of sauces and multiplied again by the number of toppings. This is: 4 * 2 * 2 = 16.

Below I will write the list of these combinations:

CHW

CHF

CBW

CBF

VHW

VHF

VBW

VBF

MHW

MHF

MBW

MBF

DHW

DHF

DBW

DBF