Exploring Meal Options: Basic Counting Problem Tutorial

Join us as we delve into a basic counting problem involving meal options at a restaurant. With three choices for appetizers, five choices for main courses, and two choices for desserts, we analyze the total number of different meal options available to customers. Whether you're interested in combinatorics or simply curious about the possibilities at a restaurant, this tutorial provides a step-by-step explanation of the solution. Tune in to enhance your understanding of basic counting principles and their practical applications in everyday scenarios!

The problem we solve is:
Suppose at a particular restaurant you have three choices for an appetizer (soup, salad or breadsticks), five choices for a main course (hamburger, sandwich, quiche, fajita or pasta) and two choices for dessert (pie or ice cream). If you are allowed to choose exactly one item from each category for your meal, how many different meal options do you have?

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Original text from Math in Society by David Lippman.