document.write( "Question 1197929: An island has 12 fur seal rookeries. To estimate the fur seal pup population in rookery A 4095 fur seal pups were tagged in early August. In late August a sample of 500 pups were observed, and 155 of these were found to have been previously tagged. Use a proportion to estimate the total number of fur seal pups in rookery A.\r
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document.write( "Your proportion is\r\n" );
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document.write( "expressing the part/(the fraction) of tagged seals.\r\n" );
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document.write( "From the proportion  x =  = 14530.645,\r\n" );
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document.write( "which we round to 14531.    ANSWER\r\n" );
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