You visit your favorite bakery and decide to buy four cookies. The bakery sells three different types of cookies: chocolate chip, peanut butter, and sugar cookies with sprinkles. How many different four cookie selections can you select from this bakery? For example, one selection could be two chocolate chip, one peanut butter, and one sugar cookie with sprinkles.
2007-12-10 01:38:40 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Three. Each time you would get two cookies of a different type. This is of course without repeating a selection. If you allow repetition, then the answer would be infinite.
2007-12-10 01:46:24 · answer #1 · answered by Beau R 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
15
cc+cc+cc+cc
pb+pb+pb+pb
sc+sc+sc+sc
cc+cc+cc+pb
cc+cc+cc+sc
pb+pb+pb+cc
pb+pb+pb+sc
sc+sc+sc+pb
sc+sc+sc+cc
cc+cc+pb+pb
cc+cc+sc+sc
pb+pb+sc+sc
cc+cc+pb+sc
sc+sc+pb+cc
pb+pb+sc+cc
ps:cc is choco chip
pb is peanut butter
and sc is sugar cookies
hey this rick person cheated
he did not have all the possiblities before
not fair
2007-12-10 09:56:30 · answer #2 · answered by bookwormanu 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
15.
Number of (0,0,4) possibilities: 3
Number of (0,1,3) possibilities: 6
Number of (0,2,2) possibilities: 3
Number of (1,1,2) possibilities: 3
2007-12-10 09:56:40 · answer #3 · answered by RickB 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋