SOLUTION: biologist tagged and released 200 deer a month later she captured 60 deer, 30 which had tag. about how many deer were in the population
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Question 926348: biologist tagged and released 200 deer a month later she captured 60 deer, 30 which had tag. about how many deer were in the population
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
400 total deer population. Look at the second later captured group and how many were with tags. Half.
You can also set up a proportion.
Ratio, tags/sample used for finding tags/population to setup proportion.
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