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Dan makes invitations out of red, white, and blue paper. Each has a star or a flag pattern. How many kinds of invitations can he make?

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A flag or a star pattern can be on each of three colours of paper so he can make 2×3=6 kinds of invitations:

red star, red flag, white star, white flag, blue star, blue flag.

So the equation is (number of possible invitations)=(number of designs)×(number of different colours).

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