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A burrito restaurant offers 3 different fillings and 4 sizes to choose from. You can choose from 0, or 1, or 2, or 3 fillings for a burrito. If the owner wants to offer more than 2000 possible burritos, how many different sauces must he make available? A customer can choose to have no sauce. You can round up your answer.
A burrito restaurant offers 3 different fillings and 4 sizes to choose from. You can choose from 0, or 1, or 2, or 3 fillings for a burrito. If the owner wants to offer more than 2000 possible burritos, how many different sauces must he make available? A customer can choose to have no sauce. You can round up your answer.
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Explanation:
Let's figure out how many choices there are for fillings given that there are
From this we see that the number of combinations for any number of choices is the sum of the row of Pascal's triangle. It can be shown that this can be calculated as see this link
The number of sizes is
Assuming that we can only choose
We also know that there is a number just above
Taking