How many treatment combinations are included in a factorial design with two factors?

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In a factorial design, the number of treatment combinations is determined by the product of the number of levels for each factor.

If you have two factors, where factor 1 has a levels and factor 2 has b levels, the experiment will include a total of $a \times b$ treatment combinations. This design ensures that all possible combinations of the factors are considered in the study.1