SOLUTION: What is the probability that a student in a college of 800 students is both a math major and a computer science major (assuming these events are independent) if there are 85 math m

Question 979607: What is the probability that a student in a college of 800 students is both a math major and a computer science major (assuming these events are independent) if there are 85 math majors and 125 computer science majors?
Answer by 428225(90) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since you know that there are 85 students who are maths majors out of 800, the probability of being a maths major is . Also, the probability of a student being a computer science major is .
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To find the probability of a student being both, you must multiply the probability of the events together.
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Therefore the probability of a student being both a maths major and a computer science major is
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