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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

BLOG 4

Lesson - Fundamental Principle of Counting Supposed McQeen’s of Nachos fast food restaurant has many choices of different types of meals you can get.
 
Meal Options:
 Plain Nachos, Loco Nachos, Grande Nachos, Monster Nachos

Meats: 
chicken, ground beef, chorizo, steak

 Toppings: 
Jalapeños, black beans, refried beans, Mexican cheese, black olives, hot sauce, McQueen’s famous salsa

Veggies:
White onions, green peppers, lettuce, fresh tomato

 Nacho Cheese:
  Mild, Medium, Spicy


* How to figure out the number of different combinations you can make* 


There are just 3 simple steps to this

 1. First add how many options you have under each category
      Meal options- 4
      Meat options- 4
      Toppings- 8
      Veggies- 4
       Nacho Cheese- 3

2. Then you are going to take the number of each options you have for each category and find the product 3.

3.     4*4*8*4*3=1,536

4. Using the Fundamental Principle of Counting it shows that at McQueen’s Nachos, there is an option of 1,536 different ways you can get your nachos

1 comment:

  1. carly,

    this is a cute idea. your calculations are correct, but a definition of the fundamental counting principle would hvae been good to add. there were a few typos, but all in all good.

    professor little

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