a particular shirt style comes in 4 colors, each color comes in 6 sizes and each size comes in 7 sleeve lengths. if a retailer wanted to have all in stock how many different shirts would have to be stocked

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vocaloid · Answer

multiply colors * sizes * sleeve lengths

veeveeniko · Answer

Okay that's what I thought

veeveeniko · Answer

thanks

mathstudent55 · Answer

This is the counting principle.
The total number of possibilities is the product of all numbers of each type.

inkyvoyd · Answer

Yeah, with these word problems, you're generally going to add choices, or multiply them, and you can use keywords to figure out what's what.

inkyvoyd · Answer

And generally refers to multiplication, and or generally refers to addition, but of course there are exceptions and you have to look closely at each problem.