Homework Help Forum: Math 156

Posted by Rmz on Friday, October 23, 2009 at 4:13pm.

You are odering some frozen yogurt for dessert and have a choice of three toppings. You can get a combination of any or all the toppings. What are your possible choices? how do these choices relate to finding all the possible subsets of a set?

• Math 156 - Reiny, Friday, October 23, 2009 at 5:59pm

  suppose your toppings are A,B, and C could have -no toppings, (null set) -A -B -C -AB -AC -BC -ABC A set of 3 elements has 8 subsets So what you are doing in the above question is finding all possible subsets of the 3 toppings

  
  

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