SOLUTION: To estimate the size of the bear population on the Keweenaw Peninsula, conservationists captured, tagged, and released 50 bears. One year later, a random sample of 100 bears in

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Question 241134: To estimate the size of the bear
population on the Keweenaw Peninsula, conservationists
captured, tagged, and released 50 bears. One year later, a
random sample of 100 bears included only 2 tagged bears.
What is the conservationist’s estimate of the size of the
bear population?

Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(12701) (Show Source):
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To estimate the size of the bear population on the Keweenaw Peninsula,
conservationists captured, tagged, and released 50 bears.
One year later, a random sample of 100 bears included only 2 tagged bears.
What is the conservationist’s estimate of the size of the bear population?
:
let x = estimation of no. of bears
;
=
cross multiply
2x = 100 * 50
2x = 5000
x = 2500 bears