a restaurant offers 12 different desserts which it serves with coffe,tea,milk,hot chocolate or orange juice. how many different ways can one have dessert and something to drink

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a restaurant offers 12 different desserts which it serves with  coffe,tea,milk,hot chocolate or orange juice. how many different ways can one have dessert and something to drink

anonymous · Answer

12 desserts times 5 drink options is$$12 x 5=60$$

amistre64 · Answer

we could make a tree out of this but youd see that it has 12 main branches with 5 tips on each branch;  which gives us a total of 12*5 = 60 different ways