Question

At the beginning of 2002, an ice cream shop claimed to have "nearly 969 different ice cream flavors." Assuming that you could choose from 969different flavors, that you could have your ice cream in a cone, a cup, or a sundae, and that you could choose from a dozen different toppings, how many different desserts could you have?

Answer 1

You could have 34,884 desserts.

The fundamental counting principle says that to find the total we do choices x choices x choices....

In this case, we have 969*12*3 = 34884.

Answer 2

34,884 desserts

Explanation:

In order to solve this you just have to multiply all of the options for the other, since you have three types of containers, and dozen different topings, you have 36 different combinations between topings and containers, and then you just have to multiply that by the number of flavors:

36*969=34,884

So that´s the total number of desserts that you can actually try in that ice cream shop.