Weekend Omelettes at Bernie's

Bernie's Breakfast Buffet offers omelettes as part of their buffet on Saturday and Sunday. They offer 6 different toppings that you can have on your omelette. For each topping, you can either not have that topping, have a single serving, or have a double serving. How many different choices of omelettes are offered?

Details and assumptions

The English term single helping and single serving refers to receiving an individual portion of food. I have changed the term to single serving, to reduce confusion amongst non-native speakers.


The answer is 729.

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6 solutions

Utkarsh Kolhe
Sep 30, 2013

For every topic their are 3 choices. 1) dont take 2) 1 helping 3) 2 helping. So the no. of choices will be 3^n here there are 6 toppings....n=6. Choices=3^6=729.

Ryan Wood
Sep 29, 2013

We have 3 different options for each topping: none, one or two. And with 6 toppings we just do 3 6 = 729 3^{6} = 729

Alan Liang
Jan 12, 2014

There are 3 choices for each topping. There are 6 toppings. Thus 3^6 = 729 is your answer.

Jeffrey Pereira
Oct 2, 2013

For our omelettes there are 6 different toppings; for each of these toppings, there are 3 serving options : not having the topping, having a single serving, or having a double serving. Since we can have multiple toppings on our omelette we must account the number of toppings and topping choices.

Since for each of the 6 toppings there are 3 options, this means that there are 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 = 729 possible omelette choices.

Now I want an omelette at 1 in the morning...

Ahaan Rungta
Sep 29, 2013

For each of the 6 6 toppings, there are 3 3 choices: 0, 1, or 2. Now, the answer is 3 6 = 729 3^6 = \boxed {729} .

Eraz Ahmed
Oct 2, 2013

Here , we have 6 different kind of toppings and for each topping , you have 3 choices. You can either not have that topping, or take that once or even twice . So , through these 6 toppings you can have 3 6 3^{6} = 729 choices of omelettes .

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