SOLUTION: Bear Population To estimate the size of the bear population on the keweenaw Peninsula conervationists captured , tagges and relesed 50 bears. One year later a random sample of 100

SOLUTION: Bear Population To estimate the size of the bear population on the keweenaw Peninsula conervationists captured , tagges and relesed 50 bears. One year later a random sample of 100

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Question 223179: Bear Population To estimate the size of the bear population on the keweenaw Peninsula conervationists captured , tagges and relesed 50 bears. One year later a random sample of 100 bears inclueded only 2 tagged bears. what is the consercationist's estimate of the size of the bear population

Answer by checkley77(12844) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x/50=100/2
2x=50*100
2x=5,000
x=5,000/2
x=2,500 estimated number of bears.
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