You are asked to choose from the meal deal at school, there are 9 varieties of sandwich, 6 varieties of snack and 8 varieties of drink. The meal deal consists of a sandwich, snack and drink - how many different combinations of meal deal are there?
As described, the meal deal consists of 1 sandwich, 1 snack and 1 drink. To work out the number of combinations possible you times the number of available sandwiches, by the number of available snacks, by the number of available drinks= 9 x 6 x 8= 432 different meal deal combinations.
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