Question

Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Shop offers 20 different flavors of ice cream and 8 different toppings. How many dirrerent sundaes can you create using one of the ice cream flavors and one of the toppings?

Answer 1

There are:

Flavors = 20

Toppings = 8

We have to find the number of ice cream sundaes possible using 1 flavor and 1 toping. We have to use the multiplication rule of counting.

It tells us that if there are "x" ways of doing something and "y" ways of doing another thing, there there are a x b ways of doing the two actions.

Here, the number of sundaes will be the multiplication of both the number of flavors and number of toppings.

Hence,

$20\times8=160$

You can make 160 different sundaes using 1 flavor and 1 toppings.