Question

An ice cream stand offers cake cones, waffle cones, or cups to hold ice cream. You can get vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, pistachio, or coffee flavored ice cream. How many outcomes are possible?

Answer 1

You can have 15 possible outcomes because if you take all the ways to hold the ice cream then have every flavor the that all adds up to 15 like this                                          Cake    Waffle  or Cup                                                                                         1 vanilla  2 vanilla    3 vanilla                                                                          4 chocolate  5 chocolate 6 chocolate                                                                    7 strawberry etc. 

Answer 2

You can have 15 ways