Wednesday, April 3, 2013

How many ways can a person choose his meal?There are 4 dishes for starters, 8 for main course and 3 for dessert. If a person at the restaurant...

Now there are 4 dishes for starters, 8 for the main course
and 3 for dessert available to choose from.


We know that
the person is taking one dish from the starters, 2 from the main course and 1 from the
dessert.


For the starters there are 4
options.


For the main course, there are 8 options for the
first dish and 7 for the other.


For the dessert there are 3
options.


Therefore the total number of options is 4*8*7*3 =
672.


Therefore the person can choose the
dishes for the meal in 672 ways.

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