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At a certain ice cream parlor, customers can choose among five different ice cream flavors and can choose either a sugar cone or a waffle cone. Considering both ice cream flavor and cone type, how many distinct triple-scoop cones with three different ice cream flavors are available?

A. 12
B. 16
C. 20
D. 24
E. 30

Customer can choose 3 out of 5 flavors 5C3=10;
Customer can choose 1 out of 2 cone type 2C1=2;

Total # of combinations possible 10*2=20.

Hope it's clear. The question would be harder if it were that customer can choose not only different flavors. And even more harder if customer can choose not only different flavors but less than three flavors too. You can try to solve these examples to master in combinatorics and permutation.
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At a particular ice-cream parlor, customers can choose among five different ice-cream flavors and may choose either a sugar cone or a waffle cone. Considering both ice-cream flavor and cone type, how many distinct triple-scoop cones with three different flavors are available?

(A) 20
(B) 10
(C) 15
(D) 18
(E) 25
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At a particular ice-cream parlor, customers can choose among five different ice-cream flavors and may choose either a sugar cone or a waffle cone. Considering both ice-cream flavor and cone type, how many distinct triple-scoop cones with three different flavors are available?

(A) 20
(B) 10
(C) 15
(D) 18
(E) 25

We can select 3 out of 5 flavours in $$5C3$$ ways
and can select cone in $$2C1$$ ways
hence total ways = $$5C3*2C1 =20$$
hence A
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15 Aug 2013, 09:20
blueseas wrote:
Asifpirlo wrote:
At a particular ice-cream parlor, customers can choose among five different ice-cream flavors and may choose either a sugar cone or a waffle cone. Considering both ice-cream flavor and cone type, how many distinct triple-scoop cones with three different flavors are available?

(A) 20
(B) 10
(C) 15
(D) 18
(E) 25

We can select 3 out of 5 flavours in $$5C3$$ ways
and can select cone in $$2C1$$ ways
hence total ways = $$5C3*2C1 =10$$
hence A

hence total ways = 5C3*2C1 = 20
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blueseas wrote:
Asifpirlo wrote:
At a particular ice-cream parlor, customers can choose among five different ice-cream flavors and may choose either a sugar cone or a waffle cone. Considering both ice-cream flavor and cone type, how many distinct triple-scoop cones with three different flavors are available?

(A) 20
(B) 10
(C) 15
(D) 18
(E) 25

We can select 3 out of 5 flavours in $$5C3$$ ways
and can select cone in $$2C1$$ ways
hence total ways = $$5C3*2C1 =10$$
hence A

hence total ways = 5C3*2C1 = 20

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Asifpirlo wrote:
At a particular ice-cream parlor, customers can choose among five different ice-cream flavors and may choose either a sugar cone or a waffle cone. Considering both ice-cream flavor and cone type, how many distinct triple-scoop cones with three different flavors are available?

(A) 20
(B) 10
(C) 15
(D) 18
(E) 25

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