On a particular afternoon, a student plans to take her niece to a movie followed by dessert. The possibilities for the movie are
an animated movie, a comedy and an adventure movie while the choices for dessert are hot fudge sundae, strawberry shortcake, apple pie and chocolate milkshake. How many possibilities are there for the afternoon events?
The number of different possibilities for the afternoon events is determined by the product of the number of movie choices (3: animated, comedy and adventure) by the number of possible deserts (4: hot fudge sundae, strawberry shortcake, apple pie and chocolate milkshake):
