SOLUTION: 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 o

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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.
The estimated number of fur seal pups in
Rookery A.
Round to the nearest whole number.
Answer by ikleyn(52781) About Me  (Show Source):
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Your proportion is

    x%2F4095 = 550%2F155


expressing the part/(the fraction) of tagged seals.


From the proportion  x = %284095%2A550%29%2F155 = 14530.645,

which we round to 14531.    ANSWER

Solved.