there are 5 major sea islands in the queen elizabeth islands of canada that you are interested in visiting. there are 12 major lakes in saskatchewan, canada that you would also like to visit. (a) if you are planning a trip to visit one of these islands, followed by one of these lakes, how many different trips could you make?



Answer :

The person can make 60 trips.

Let us say that A indicates the major sea Islands and B indicates the major lakes. Taking both the cases as events, we will use multiplication principle. Based on the information, the event A occurs in m ways and the event B will occur in n ways. So, the two events will occur in m×n ways.

Thus, A × B = 5 × 12

Performing multiplication on Right Hand Side of the equation to find the number of trips

Total number of trips = 60

Hence, there are 60 trips that could be made.

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