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\n" ); document.write( ": 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. \n" ); document.write( "
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x = number of deer in forest
\n" ); document.write( "If the 36 deer that they captured was agood random sample
\n" ); document.write( "of the whole forest, then
\n" ); document.write( "\"85+%2F+x+=+4+%2F+36\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"4x+=+3060\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"x=+765\" deer in the forest
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