Question
Kiera is making trail mix for a camping trip. Kiera wants to use one kind of nuts and one kind of dried fruit, and there are 10 kinds of nuts and 8 kinds of dried fruit available. How many different trail mixes can Kiera make? square trail mixes
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Answer
### 80 trail mixes
Explanation
## Step 1: Calculate the number of choices for nuts### Kiera has 10 options for nuts.## Step 2: Calculate the number of choices for dried fruit### Kiera has 8 options for dried fruit.## Step 3: Calculate the total number of trail mix combinations### For each of the 10 nut choices, Kiera can choose from 8 dried fruit options. Therefore, multiply the number of nut choices by the number of dried fruit choices to find the total number of different trail mixes:
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