SOLUTION: Conservationists captured, tagged, and released 50 bears. One year later, a random sample of 100 bears included only 2 tagged bears. What is the estimate of the size of the bear po
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Question 883712: Conservationists captured, tagged, and released 50 bears. One year later, a random sample of 100 bears included only 2 tagged bears. What is the estimate of the size of the bear population?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Proportion. The size is some unknown population, p. The 50 tagged bears caught and released were assumed dispersed uniformly into the entire population.
Solve for p.
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