Question

Brennan is building a playground. There are 2 different slides and 10 swing sets to choose from. For the seesaw, Brennan has 2 options. If the playground will include one of each type of play structure, how many different playgrounds can Brennan build?

Answer 1

40

Explanation:

A way to do this would be to think of it as a graph.

To find out how many different playgrounds you can build with 10 swing sets and 2 different slides, you can multiply 10 by 2 to get 20.

Taking this number, you can multiply it by 2 (for the seesaw) to get the total amount of different playgrounds.

Multiply 20 by 2 will get you 40.

He can make a total of 40 different playgrounds.