Question

A Mexican restaurant offers different types of fajitas. You can choose chicken, beef or shrimp with either corn or flour tortillas. Then you can choose either mild, medium or hot salsa. How many different choices of fajitas are possible?

Answer 1

There are 3 types of fajitas, with 2 types of tortillas, and 3 types of salsa.

To get all the different combinations, you must multiply all the different possibilities together, hence there are 3 types × 2 tortillas × 3 salsas choices.

3 × 2 × 3 = 18

There are 18 choices of fajitas.