SOLUTION: A thousand fish in one of the lakes in Ontario were caught and tagged by the Department of Oceans and Fisheries. After a few days, 600 fish caught and of those, 80 had tags. What
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Question 1080549: A thousand fish in one of the lakes in Ontario were caught and tagged by the Department of Oceans and Fisheries. After a few days, 600 fish caught and of those, 80 had tags. What conclusion could be made about the total number of fish in the lake?
Answer by ikleyn(52860) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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A thousand fish in one of the lakes in Ontario were caught tagged by the Department of Oceans and Fisheries.
After a few days, 600 fish caught and of those, 80 had tags. What conclusion could be made about the total number of fish in the lake?
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See the lesson
- Using proportions to estimate the number of fish in a lake
in this site.
This method is used to estimate the amount of fish in lakes.
The proportion works
= ,
which gives the estimate for the number of fish in the lake
x = = 7500.
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