Question

Justin owns 6 different dress shirts, 3 different pairs of jeans and 5 different ties. How many distinct outfits, each consisting of a short, a pair of pants and a tie, can Justin make?

Answer 1

Justin can make 90 distinct outfits.

Explanation:

Given:

Number of shirts = 6

Number of pants = 3

Number of ties = 5

We need to find the distinct outfits Justin can make.

Solution:

So we can say that;

To find the distinct outfit Justin could make we would multiply all the outfits.

So we can say that;

Number of distinct outfits is equal to Number of shirts multiplied by Number of pants multiplied by Number of ties.

framing in equation form we get;

Number of distinct outfits =
`6* 3* 5 =90`

Hence Justin can make 90 distinct outfits.