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

The answer for this problem is 15

The answer is 15 possible combinations

To solve this kind of problems you need to multiply the number of possible candidates in each category.

Here we have to categories: Starters and Entrees, with 3 and 5 possibilities respectively; so the number of combinations is 3*5=15