A customer can choose to eat just one course, or two different courses, or all three courses. Assuming all choices are available, how many different possible meals does the restaurant offer?
So here is what I thought of. Since the question said that a customer can choose one, two or all of three courses, I would use a Venn diagram for this matter.
First of all I created a situation where A would represent appetizer, B would be main meal and C would be desserts. So if I use a Venn diagram, the intersection in this case which can represent the customer choosing from one up to all three courses. The part where I got confused is will the intersection point between each 3 section of the Venn diagram have different unknowns? Help me out.
Best Answer
The problem has nothing to do with Venn diagrams. You are calculating the intersections of appetizer, main and dessert, which means you are calculating the number of items which can serve as all three type of courses, which has nothing to do with the problem.
I have given a solution below, but if you want have another go at it, Here's a hint. I am only restating the problem.
A possible solution: