The fair is in town and you decide to visit the carnival game section of the mid

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The fair is in town and you decide to visit the carnival game section of the midway. The first game involves throwing beanbags into baskets. If there are 4 baskets and you get to throw 2 beanbags, how many possible outcomes are there for this game?

The second game involves flipping coins to see if they land heads or tails. If you get to flip 3 coins, how many possible outcomes are there for this game?

It seems like they ran out of game ideas since the third game involves you playing the first game and then the second game. How many possible outcomes are there for this game?

Explanation / Answer

The number of outcomes for the first question is six. This is arrived using combination formula

4C2 = 6

The number of outcomes for the second game is 8.

The number of outcomes for both the games would be the product of the two answers i.e. 48.

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