A business traveler has five shirts, four pairs of pants, and two jackets in his closet. How many possible outfits, consisting of a shirt, a pair of pants, and a jacket, could he wear?

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2020-11-03

A business traveler has five shirts, four pairs of pants, and two jackets in his closet. How many possible outfits, consisting of a shirt, a pair of pants, and a jacket, could he wear?

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Skilled2020-11-04Added 75 answers

By the Fundamental Counting Principle, the number of possible outfits is:
# of shirts x # of pair of pants x # of jackets
5×4×2=40

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