SOLUTION: 3. A team of biologists captured and tagged 85 deer in a forest. Two weeks later, the biologists captured a sample of 36 deer from the same forest and found that 4 of them were tag
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: 3. A team of biologists captured and tagged 85 deer in a forest. Two weeks later, the biologists captured a sample of 36 deer from the same forest and found that 4 of them were tagged. Use this information to estimate the number of deer in the forest.
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Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x = number of deer in forest
If the 36 deer that they captured was agood random sample
of the whole forest, then
deer in the forest
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