SOLUTION: a game warden cathes, tags, and then realses 15 zebras. a month later, a sample of 20 zebras is collected and 6 of them have tags. use this information to estimate the size of the
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Question 1166122: a game warden cathes, tags, and then realses 15 zebras. a month later, a sample of 20 zebras is collected and 6 of them have tags. use this information to estimate the size of the zebra in that area. Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source):
Use the proportion
=
saying that tagged zebras are uniformly mixed among the rest of them.
From the proportion, find the total number of zebras, which is under the problem's question
x = = 50. ANSWER
