Question

John is making himself a lunch. He has three different soups to choose from, four different kinds of pop, and three different kinds of fruit. How many different lunches can he prepare today

Answer 1

For this problem, we use the Fundamental Counting Principle where it states that if an event has n possible outcome and another independent event has m outcomes then there will be nm total possible outcome. Therefore, there are 3x4x3 = 36 possible different lunch John can make.