A restaurant offers the following options: Starter – soup or salad Main – chicken, fish or vegetar

A restaurant offers the following options:

• Starter – soup or salad
• Main – chicken, fish or vegetarian
• Dessert – ice cream or cake

How many possible different combinations of starter, main and dessert are there?

Using the fundamental rule of counting, we have:
2 starters * 3 main courses * 2 desserts = 12 different combinations