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A deli offers lunch special that comes with soup a sandwich and a dessert the soup choices are tomato or onion the sandwich choices are ham chicken tuna or pastrami and the dessert choices are cake or pie how many different lunch specials are in the sample space

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So to solve this you would make a tree with the first soup choices branching off into the other choices. Then when you wrote down all the possibilitys you would count all them and get your answer or you could just do 2*4*2=16
so there would be 16 possibilitys
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