Suppose that in the experiment in Exercise 35, only 5 of the previously tagged deer were collected
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Suppose that in the experiment in Exercise 35, only 5 of the previously tagged deer were collected in the sample of 75. What would be the estimate of the deer population?
Data from in Exercise 35
To estimate the deer population of a forest preserve, wildlife biologists caught, tagged, and then released 42 deer. A month later, they returned and caught a sample of 75 deer and found that 15 of them were tagged. Based on this experiment, how many deer lived in the forest preserve?
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Intermediate Algebra
ISBN: 9780134895987
13th Edition
Authors: Margaret Lial, John Hornsby, Terry McGinnis
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