To find the possible number of steak dinners, you would multiply the number of choices for each part of the dinner. You would used combinations instead of permutations since the order of the toppings chosen or side dishes chosen do not matter. There are 5 choose 1 choices for types of steak, which is just 5. There are 8 choose 3 choices for side dishes, which is 56. There are 4 choose 3 choices for toppings, which is 4. 5*56*4 is 1120, so there are 1120 possible steak dinners.
