Joan and Jim are planning a dinner menu including a main dish and dessert. They have $4$ main dish choices (steak, vegetable-cheese casserole, turkey burgers, and vegetarian lasagna) and $3$ dessert choices (chocolate brownies, strawberry ice cream, and chocolate chip cookies). Homework Help ✎

1. Joan and Jim would like to know how many different dinner menus they have to choose from. One way to make sure you have considered the entire sample space – all the possible menu outcomes – is to make a table like the one at right. How many different menus are there?

   chocolate brownies
   strawberry ice cream
   chocolate chip cookies

   Possibility 1(a): Make a Diagram

   

   Each line represents one unique dinner menu.

   Possibility 2(a): Write a list

   Steak with Brownies
   Steak with Ice Cream
   Steak with Chocolate Chip Cookies
   
   Tuna Casserole with Brownies
   Tuna Casserole with Ice Cream
   Tuna Casserole with Chocolate Chip Cookies
   
   Turkey Burgers with Brownies
   Turkey Burgers with Ice Cream
   Turkey Burgers with Chocolate Chip Cookies
   
   Lasagna with Brownies
   Lasagna with Ice Cream
   Lasagna with Chocolate Chips Cookies

    

   Possibility 3(a): Use multiplication

   ($4$ main dish choices)($3$ dessert choices) = $12$ menus

2. Assume the main dish choice and the dessert choice are both chosen randomly. Are all the menus equally likely?

3. What is the probability they pick a menu without meat? What is the probability they pick a menu with chocolate?