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Salad Options A salad bar offers a base of lettuce to which tomatoes, chickpeas, beets, pinto beans, olives, and green peppers can be added. Five salad dressings are available. How many different salads are possible? (Assume that each salad contains at least lettuce and at most one salad dressing.)
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