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Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by Pants.

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Without them, belts would look awfully silly.

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How many different outfits can be made from a choice of

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three pairs of pants, four shirts, and two pairs of shoes?

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And here are the potential answers…

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This is a very simple question of combinations.

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A combination is a selection of objects the order of which doesn't matter.

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We are making outfits that consist of shirts, pants and shoes.

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There are 3 things we need to pick, so we have 3 slots.

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The problem tells us we have 4 shirts here, 3 pants here, and 2 shoes here.

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To find the total number of combinations of outfits, we can multiply the three together.

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So, it's 4 times 3 times 2 equals 24. Our answer is (E).

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