A certain restaurant offers 6 kinds of cheese and 2 kinds of fruit for its dessert platter. if each dessert platter contains an equal numbr of kinds of cheese and kinds of fruit, how many different dessert platters could the restaurant offer?
Ans)27
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Sophia,[email protected] wrote:A certain restaurant offers 6 kinds of cheese and 2 kinds of fruit for its dessert platter. if each dessert platter contains an equal numbr of kinds of cheese and kinds of fruit, how many different dessert platters could the restaurant offer?
Ans)27
so we can either have 1 cheese+1fruit combo OR 2 cheeses and 2 fruits combo
6c1 x 2c1 + 6c2 x 2c2 = (6 x 2) + (15 x 1) = 27
AcB means how many different B can we select out of A
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinationjnellaz wrote:6c1 x 2c1 + 6c2 x 2c2 = (6 x 2) + (15 x 1) = 27
Hey Logitech,
In your equation above, can you explain how 6c2 x 2c2 = (15 x 1)? I am not familiar with AcB expressions. Thx!
Read this and please let me know if you have any questions.
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