Question

A restaurant is offering a dinner special that includes one starter and one entree. The choices are listed below.

Starter: breadsticks, soup, salad
Entree: beef, fish, chicken, shrimp, pork

How many possible dinner special combinations are there?
5
8
10
15

Answer 1

To determine the number of possible dinner special combinations, we need to multiply the number of choices for starters by the number of choices for entrees.

There are 3 starter options:
- breadsticks
- soup
- salad

And there are 5 entree options:
- beef
- fish
- chicken
- shrimp
- pork

Now we can calculate the total combinations:

\[
\text{Total combinations} = \text{Number of starters} \times \text{Number of entrees} = 3 \times 5 = 15
\]

Therefore, the total number of possible dinner special combinations is **15**.