Question

you choose between red, blue, yellow or green wallpaper and purple or yellow carpet find the total number of possible outcomes when you select one color of wallpaper and one color of carpet

Answer 1

8 possible outcomes

Explanation:

I'm going to list all the possibilities and then count them up.

First Word is the wallpaper color, Second is the carpet color.

Red + Purple, Red + Yellow, Blue + Purple, Blue + Yellow, Yellow + Purple, Yellow + Yellow, Green + Purple, Green + Yellow

After counting them up, we get 8. Therefore there are 8 possible outcomes.

Another way is to multiply the possible outcomes for each event together, and you can get the total number of outcomes. For example, in this problem there is 4 wallpaper colors and 2 carpet colors, so when u multiply them u get 8 total outcomes. Hope this helped!