Probably an ambiguous word problem

Question

I don't know if this should have been posted on English because it's about interpretation of a sentence, or Math because it involves with a math problem to get the right context and interpretation...

Anyways, here's the problem:

Restaurant A had just put out a new combination meal set. Each set costs $89 and customers can choose one main dish, one side, and one drink. The followings are the choices:

Main dish : Chicken Burger, Hamburger, Fish Burger, Double Burger

Side : Chicken Nuggets, French Fries, Apple Pie

Drink : Coke, Coffee, Milk Tea

However, there are two restrictions to certain combinations such as: Fish Burger and Chicken Nuggets must come together, Chicken Burger cannot go with Coffee. Except these two restrictions, customers can mix and match any other combinations. How many different combination sets are available to customers?

(A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 25 (D) 28

An easy question, I know, but this turned out to be ambiguous.

I interpret the sentence written in bold as:

1. Fish Burger and Chicken Nuggets are inseparable, so Fish Burger have to go with Chicken Nuggets as the side, and Chicken Nuggets can only be ordered with Fish Burger as the main dish
2. Every set with Chicken Burger as main dish, cannot have Coffee as the drink

And I calculated

Chicken Burger : 2 possible sides * 2 possible drinks =  4
Hamburger      : 2 possible sides * 3 possible drinks =  6
Fish Burger    : 1 possible side  * 3 possible drinks =  3
Double Burger  : 2 possible sides * 3 possible drinks =  6
                                                        -- +
                                                        19 combinations total

...which don't appear in the choices. So either I am wrong with interpreting that sentence, or this problem is badly worded.

What's your take on interpreting this?

Answer 1

Fish Burger must go with chicken nuggets, so there are only 3 combinations that fish burger can have (as there are 3 drinks and only 1 side). Chicken burger must not go with coffee so there are 3 sides and 2 drinks for the chicken burger, so there are 6 total combinations with the chicken burger. And finally, the double burger and hamburger can go with 3 sides and 3 drinks, so there are 18 total there (9 for double and 9 for hamburger). Therefore there are 3+6+18=27. Which isn't an available answer. But it works if you say that chicken nuggets can only go with fish burger and fish burger is free to take all 3 sides, as you then get 9+4+6+6=25. It's just a poorly worded question.