The document provides examples and questions to review the counting principle. It presents scenarios involving outfits, pizzas, sundaes, and lunches with multiple options in categories. For each scenario, it asks how many combinations are possible and in some cases, the probability of a specific combination.

1. Name:_______________ Date:_____________
Counting Principle Review
Directions: Apply the counting principle to answer the following questions.
1. In the morning Mr. Z picks out an outfit in the dark. An outfit consists of
one pair of shoes, one pair of socks, one pair of pants, one shirt and one tie.
Shoes Socks Pants Shirt Tie
Brown tan khaki white blue
black black jeans blue red
white dress red green
black
a) How many different outfits could Mr. Z pick out?
b) What is the probability the outfit will have a blue shirt?
2. Cinnaminson Pizza offers the following options when creating a one
topping original pizza:
Crust Size Toppings
white small extra cheese
whole wheat medium pepperoni
large sausage
meatball
bacon
a) How many different pizzas can be created?

2. 3. Sundae’s Ice Cream Shoppe ran a one day special on three scoop
sundaes. The customers where allowed to choose one item from each
category:
Flavor Topping #1 Topping #2
vanilla hot fudge whip cream
chocolate peanut butter rainbow sprinkles
strawberry strawberry sauce chocolate sprinkles
coffee peanut butter chips
a) How many different toppings can be created?
b) What is the probability the sundae created will have vanilla ice
cream AND whip cream?
4. On Tuesday, Jack and Jill went to an express tapas style lunch. They
were allowed to order one menu item from each category presented.
Appetizer Salad Entree Sorbet Dessert
chips & salsa taco quesadillas lemon flan
queso dip house burritos raspberry cheese cake
vegetable wraps tacos crème burlee
a) How many of the lunch combinations would include quesadillas?