In general, if you have $m$ $m$ items of one type and $n$ $n$ things of another type, how many possible ways can you choose one of each?

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In general, if you have $m$ $m$ items of one type and $n$ $n$ things of another type, how many possible ways can you choose one of each?

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Answer 1 · 2015-05-10T23:42:32

If there are $m$ $m$ items of Type A
then there are $m$ $m$ ways you can choose 1 item of Type A.

For each of these ways, if there are $n$ $n$ items of Type B,
then there are $n$ $n$ ways of choosing 1 item of Type B for each way of choosing an item of type A.

There are $m \times n$ $mxxn$ ways of choosing one item of each type.

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