A golf club manufacturer makes drivers with 4 different shaft lengths, 3 different lofts, 2 different grips, and 2 different club head materials. How many different combinations are possible?
1 Answer
Oct 20, 2017
Explanation:
There is a formulaic way to solve this, but knowing the concept makes this problem understandable.
There are 4 different shafts: S1, S2, S3, and S4
And 3 different lofts: L1, L2, L3
Just looking at those combinations we have:
S1, L1
S2, L1
S3, L1
S4, L1
S1, L2
S2, L2
S3, L2
S4, L2
S1, L3
S2, L3
S3, L3
S4, L3
That is 12 combinations or
Then there are 2 different grips that all those combinations could have so that makes a total of
Then there are 2 different head materials that those
Thus there are a total of