SOLUTION: A biologist wants to estimate the number of fish living in a lake she caught 114 fish tagged each one and then released them back into the lake after a few days she got 260 fish an

Question 988797: A biologist wants to estimate the number of fish living in a lake she caught 114 fish tagged each one and then released them back into the lake after a few days she got 260 fish and found that 21 of them were tagged use a proportion to estimate the number of fish living in this lake
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A biologist wants to estimate the number of fish living in a lake
she caught 114 fish tagged each one and then released them back into the lake
after a few days she got 260 fish and found that 21 of them were tagged use a proportion to estimate the number of fish living in this lake
:
let x = estimated no. of fish in the lake
:
=
cross multiply
21x = 114 * 260
21x = 29640
x = 29640/21
x ~ 1400 fish in the lake
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