SOLUTION: biologist tagged and released 330 deer. A month later she captured 40 deer, 30 of which had tags. About how many deer were in the population?
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Question 926361: biologist tagged and released 330 deer. A month later she captured 40 deer, 30 of which had tags. About how many deer were in the population?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Notice that in the capture of the 40 deer, of those 40 had tags.
330 is of the whole deer population.
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