Question

you flip a spinner that has 4 differently colored regions (red, white, blue, green) all equal in area, and toss 1 die and count the dots on top (1 thourgh 6 possible). How many color-dot outcomes are possible?

Answer 1

Answer:

24 ways

Step-by-step explanation:

Two different events

1) flip a spinner with 4 different colors regions.

2) tossing a die with 6 outcomes

to calculate number of colored dots possible

note here both action are independent of each other

by the principal of counting we can say

if an act is performed in m ways and another act can be performed in n ways the both the act simultaneously can be performed in $m\times n$ ways.

here act 1 has m=4 ways and act n= 6 ways

hence number of ways of getting colored dots = $4\times6$ ways

= 24 ways