November Answer:
Problem: McKay and her friends agreed to organize party favors for her little sister's birthday party. Each bag will contain 1 pack of crackers, 1 eraser, and 1 pack of cookies. Using the chart below, determine how many different party flavor combinations could be placed in each bag:
Crackers |
Cookies |
Erasers |
Wheatables |
Keebler Chips Deluxe |
balloon |
Munch-ems |
Golden Vanilla Wafers |
birthday cake |
Vienna Fingers |
Solution:
Possible Combinations:
| Wheatables | Chips Deluxe | balloon eraser | |
| Wheatables | Chips Deluxe | cake eraser | |
| Wheatables | Vanilla Wafers | balloon eraser | |
| Wheatables | Vanilla Wafers | cake eraser | |
| Wheatables | Vienna Fingers | balloon eraser | |
| Wheatables | Vienna Fingers | cake eraser | |
| Munch ‘ems | Chips Deluxe | balloon eraser | |
| Munch ‘ems | Chips Deluxe | cake eraser | |
| Munch ‘ems | Vanilla Wafers | balloon eraser | |
| Munch ‘ems | Vanilla Wafers | cake eraser | |
| Munch ‘ems | Vienna Fingers | balloon eraser | |
| Munch ‘ems | Vienna Fingers | cake eraser |
Combinations can also be found by multiplying the number of choices for each category:
| Cracker choices | x | Cookie choices | x | Eraser choices | |
| 2 | x | 3 | x | 2 | |
| = | 6 | x | 2 | ||
| = | 12 different combinations |