a certain music store stocks 800 cellos and 600 violas . of these instruments , there are 80 cello - viola pairs , such that a cello and a viola were both made with wood from the same tree ( each tree can make at most one viola and one cello , so there are no pairs other than these 90 ) . if one viola and one cello are chosen at random , what is the probability that the two instruments are made with wood from the same tree ?
"solution provided by stanford 2012 is correct : 80 / 800 choosing one of the cellos which has a pair viola , 1 / 600 choosing the viola which is the pair of chosen cello - - > p = 80 / 800 * 1 / 600 = 1 / 6,000 . answer : c ."
multiply(divide(80, 800), divide(const_1, 600))