Question

In a recent advertising campaign, Applebee's restaurant offered diners a special 3-course menu for $15.99. The menu included choices of three appetizers (mozzarella sticks, house salad, soup), four entrees (chicken, fish, beef, vegetarian pasta), and two desserts (ice cream, apple pie). How many of these 3-course meals have the beef course as the entree?

Options:
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5

Answer 1

To find the number of 3-course meals with beef as the entree, we multiply the number of choices for each course together and subtract one.

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve this problem, we can use basic combinatorics. There are 3 choices for the appetizer, 4 choices for the entree, and 2 choices for the dessert. To find the number of possible 3-course meals with beef as the entree, we multiply the number of choices for each course together: 3 * 1 * 2 = 6. However, we need to subtract 1 from this answer because the menu specifically states 'four entrees' and we are only considering one. So the final answer is 6 - 1 = 5.