To estimate the deer population of a forest preserve, wildlife biologists caught, tagged, and then released 42

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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?image

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Intermediate Algebra

ISBN: 9780134895987

13th Edition

Authors: Margaret Lial, John Hornsby, Terry McGinnis

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