How can we come to know that whether we have to add or multiply in combination?

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If your problems has words like "or", "either", "at least" or their synonyms, you need to 'ADD' favorable cases; hence the combinations.
If your problem has words like "and", "both", "all" or their synonyms, you need to 'MULTIPLY' favorable cases; hence the combination

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