ShmoopTube

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Here's a shmoopy question for ya...

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To complete their profiles, users of a website are encouraged to

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create a representation of themselves, or an avatar.

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The following choices are given to each user:

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How many different avatars can be created based on these options?

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Here are the potential answers:

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So... this question is really testing whether we were awake in class the day

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our teacher demonstrated the fundamental counting principle.

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Basically it's saying that when we have choices, we just multiply them to get the

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full suite of POSSIBLE choices in a set.

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Consider a simple example: 3 geeks and 2 jocks.

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They could pair in the following ways:

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These are all 6 ways that could possibly be constructed from a set of 3 choices and a

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set of 2 choices -- 3 times 2 is 6 and... well, you get it.

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Now we just need to do the same with all the... colors of the human rainbow provided.

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So we just... multiply 'em.

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We get 2 times 5 times 4 times 5 times 8... which gives us 1600.

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And voila...it's answer D.

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And now you can make the avatar to end all avatars.

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