A hiking group will go from a certain town to a certain village by van on 1 of 4 roads, from the village to a waterfall by riding bicycles on 1 of 2 bicycle paths, and then from the waterfall to their campsite by hiking on 1 of 6 trails. How may routes are possible for the hiking group to go from the town to the village to the waterfall to their campsite?

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anonymous · Answer

my phone died on you lol i tried to answer it and it shut off.. dam it

anonymous · Answer

no lol only car charger

anonymous · Answer

no i am an idiot when it comes to math

anonymous · Answer

you are not an idiot sweetie....first thing that you want to do with word problems is write them out...You want to write each scenario down 
ex:
town to village= 4 paths
village to waterfall=2 paths
wf to campsite=6 paths

anonymous · Answer

make sense?

anonymous · Answer

yeah i was writing it down.. then what lol

anonymous · Answer

ok, you want to find the total amount of different paths they can take...so you know that they can take how many paths from the town to the village

anonymous · Answer

24

anonymous · Answer

that was totally a guess i added all the paths together and multiplied by the lowest amount of paths that could be takin...

anonymous · Answer

think about it this way...I'm gonna try and use this draw thing lol

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anonymous · Answer

lol ok i told you i am an idiot when it comes to this stuff

anonymous · Answer

no you aren't lol

anonymous · Answer

ok this is your 4 paths from the town to the village... now you can take 1 of 2 paths from each of these, correct?

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