Carmen has 3 skirts and 4 blouses. Show how the concept of the Cartesian product can help her determine how many different outfits she can put on.

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Mercury · Answer

I'm not super familiar with Cartesian products, but from my understanding they're the product of sets? in this case, your first set would be the set of 3 skirts, and your second set would be the set of 4 blouses. you can create a table similar to this. (instead of 1, 2, 3, or x, y, z, you could make your set skirt1, skirt2, etc.) |dw:1602727062735:dw| clickable: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Cartesian_Product_qtl1.svg/1200px-Cartesian_Product_qtl1.svg.png