A restaurant is offering a dinner special that includes one starter and one entree. The choices are listed below. Starter: breadsticks, soup, salad Entree: beef, fish, chicken, shrimp, pork How many possible dinner special combinations are there? 5 8 10 15

The answer is 15 possible combinations

To solve this kind of problems you need to multiply the number of possible candidates in each category.

Here we have to categories: Starters and Entrees, with 3 and 5 possibilities respectively; so the number of combinations is 3*5=15

The answer for this problem is 15