document.write( "Question 1086458: Biologists want to know how many fish are in a certain lake. On January 1, they removed 500 fish from the lake and tagged them. On February 1, they returned to the lake and collected a random sample of 400 fish, of which eight had been previously tagged. Based on this experiment, approximately how many fish are in the lake?\r
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p, population of fish\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"8%2F400=500%2Fp\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"400%2F8=p%2F500\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"50=p%2F500\"\r
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