SOLUTION: Biologists tagged 500 fish in a lake on January 1. On February 1 they returned and collected a random sample of 400 fish, 8 of which had been previously tagged. Approximately how m

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: Biologists tagged 500 fish in a lake on January 1. On February 1 they returned and collected a random sample of 400 fish, 8 of which had been previously tagged. Approximately how many fish does the lake have based on this experiment?This question is from textbook

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Biologists tagged 500 fish in a lake on January 1. On February 1 they returned and collected a random sample of 400 fish, 8 of which had been previously tagged. Approximately how many fish does the lake have based on this experiment?
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Actual population / caught = tagged population /tagged caught
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Actual pop/ 500 = 400/8
Actual pop = 500(50) = 25,000
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Cheers,
Stan H.