In a restaurant there are 9 starter dishes 15 main dishes 8 dessert dishes Janet is going to choose one of the following combinations for her meal - Edexcel - GCSE Maths - Question 12 - 2018 - Paper 2

To calculate the combinations of a main dish and a dessert dish, we use:

$15 imes 8 = 120$

Hence, there are 120 ways to choose a main dish and a dessert dish.

For the combination of a starter dish, a main dish, and a dessert dish, we find:

$9 imes 15 imes 8 = 1080$

Therefore, there are 1080 ways to choose a starter dish, a main dish, and a dessert dish.

To find the total number of ways to choose a meal, we sum the combinations from the previous calculations:

$135 + 120 + 1080 = 1335$

This shows that there are indeed 1335 different ways to choose the meal.