Question

Karen is painting her bedroom. She has orange, green, blue, and purple paint. She plans to use one color as a base coat and stencil a design with another color. How many different ways can she do this?
is it 16?

Answer 1

(4)(3)=12
want an explaination?

Answer 2

yes please

Answer 3

for the first color she can choose from the four, so there's your four. the question says that she wants to use a DIFFERENT color for the stencil, so now she only has three to choose from.
if the problem had not said she would use a different color for the stencil you would have been right. that help?

Answer 4

yea it did I really wanted to say 8 but they didnt have that option and now its more clear haha thanks