SOLUTION: Biologists tagged 172 fish in a lake on January 1. On February​ 1, they returned and collected a random sample of 33 ​fish, 11 of which had been previously tagged. On t
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Question 1054849: Biologists tagged 172 fish in a lake on January 1. On February 1, they returned and collected a random sample of 33 fish, 11 of which had been previously tagged. On the basis of this experiment, approximately how many fish does the lake have?
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Biologists tagged 172 fish in a lake on January 1. On February 1, they returned and collected a random sample of 33 fish,
11 of which had been previously tagged. On the basis of this experiment, approximately how many fish does the lake have?
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