There are 12 possibilities for choosing a vegetable topping each time that one chooses a meat topping. Since there are 5 options for meat toppings, multiply 12 times 5 to find the total number of different ways that you can select those toppings:
![5*12=60](https://img.qammunity.org/2023/formulas/mathematics/high-school/472h4fs36de3abpntoyid527f5assso6rs.png)
Therefore, the number of different ways in which you could select a meat topping or a vegetable topping, is:
![60](https://img.qammunity.org/2023/formulas/mathematics/high-school/1bh0o10rtqi77zczwd6lwtdoynfdzbykey.png)