Levi, the music reporter for his high school newspaper, is writing an article about this year's school musical. Levi wants to interview one male and one female cast member, and there are 7 boys and 2 girls in the musical this year. How many different sets of people can Levi interview?____ sets
Q. Levi, the music reporter for his high school newspaper, is writing an article about this year's school musical. Levi wants to interview one male and one female cast member, and there are 7 boys and 2 girls in the musical this year. How many different sets of people can Levi interview?____ sets
Identify Interviewees: Levi needs to interview one male and one female. There are 7 boys and 2 girls available for the interview. To find the total number of different sets of people he can interview, we need to multiply the number of choices for boys by the number of choices for girls.Calculation: 7 (choices for boys) ×2 (choices for girls)
Calculate Total Sets: Evaluating the multiplication gives us the total number of different sets. 7×2=14
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