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at a wedding you may choose either a garden or caesar salad, a steak, chicken,, or fish entree, broccoli, or asparagus, and chocolate cake or apple pie for dessert. how many dinners are possible? (makes you hungry)
My answer: 20

salad:2

entree:3
vege:2
dessert:2

multiply those numbers

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To figure out the number of possible dinner combinations, you need to multiply the number of options for each course together.

For the salad course, there are two options (garden or Caesar salad).
For the entree course, there are three options (steak, chicken, or fish).
For the side dish, there are two options (broccoli or asparagus).
And for dessert, there are two options (chocolate cake or apple pie).

To find the total number of dinner combinations, multiply the number of options for each course together:

2 (salad) * 3 (entree) * 2 (side dish) * 2 (dessert) = 24

So, there are 24 possible dinner combinations at the wedding.