Hi,

In a capture-recapture study, a biologist tagged and released 200 deer. 

A month later she captured 50 deer, 10 of which had tags. 

About how many deer  were in the population?

       Cross Multiplying to solve

     10X = 10000

       , the number of deer in the population 

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