On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Abdul Rahman wrote:
> Please help me with my statistics.
>
> If you order a burger from McDonald's you have a choice of the
> following condiments: ketchup, mustard , lettuce. pickles, and
> mayonnaise. A customer can ask for all these condiments or any subset
> of them when he or she orders a burger. How many different
> combinations of condiments can be ordered? No condiment at all counts
> as one combination.
>
> Your help is badly needed.
Why? All you have to do is construct all the possibilities and count
them. Shouldn't be that hard. If you want a method for dealing with
more general cases, that might be another matter, of course. But even
that would yield to the same procedure, if you went about it in a
systematic enough fashion.
So how have you approached the problem so far?
(I'm a New Englander, and we tend to disapprove of laziness. If you
haven't even tried to solve it yourself [and problems like this are
almost certainly dealt with in your textbook!], I'm not interested in
providing any help at all.)
-- DFB.
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