In your school cafeteria offers pork, beef, chicken, and fish for main dish, chop suey, pinakbet, and black beans for vegetable dishes, banana and pineapple for dessert, and tea, juice, and soft drinks for black beverage, in how many ways can you choose, your meal consisting of 1 cup of rice,1 main dish,1 vegetable dish 1 beverage, and 1 dessert?

You can use the multiplication rule which says that if there are a ways to do a thing and b ways to do another thing, then there are total a.b ways to do them both.

The total ways for choosing the meal consisting of 1 cup of rice,1 main dish,1 vegetable dish 1 beverage,and 1 dessert is  72

According to this, if there are a ways to do a thing and b ways to do another thing, then there are total a.b ways to do them both.

1 Main dish can be chosen in 4 different ways as there are four items available to choose from.

1 vegetable dish can be chosen in 3 ways as there are three items to chose from.

1  beverage can be chosen in 3 ways.

1 dessert can be chosen in 2 ways.

The number of ways a meal consisting of 1 cup of rice,1 main dish,1 vegetable dish 1 beverage,and 1 dessert is chosen by

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i would say c is the best answer, hope it's right!

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a² + b²= c²

24² + 7² = c²

c= 25