A continental breakfast has a choice of toast, muffin, or a bagel AND a choice of coffee, milk or apple juice. How many possible outcomes are there?

There are an unknown number of possible outcomes. To figure this out all we need to do is multiply the amount of options per category to get the number of possible combinations.

In this case, there are 3 choices of food items and 3 choices of drinks.

Therefore, we need to multiply 3 by 3 to get the combinations.

3 times 3 equals 9

In conclusion, there are 9 possible combinations to be made from the choices presented.