You would like a salad that consists of lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and peppers. you go to the supermarket intending to purchase one variety of each of these ingredients. you discover that there are eight varities of lettuce, 6 varieties of tomatoes, 3 varities of cucumbers, & 3 varieties of peppers for sale at the supermakret. how many different salads can you make?

The correct answer is:

432

Explanation:

The fundamental counting principle states that in order to find the total number of choices, we multiply each number of choices together.  This gives us:

8(6)(3)(3) = 48(3)(3) = 144(3) = 432

36 girls

step-by-step explanation:

the 48 boys is 4 parts of the ratio

divide 48 by 4 to obtain one part of the ratio

= 12 ← 1 part of the ratio

3 parts = 3 × 12 = 36 ← number of girls

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