SOLUTION: Biologists tagged 98 tagged fish in a lake on January 1. On February​ 1, they returned and collected a random sample of 3333 ​fish, 1111 of which had been previously t

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Question 1058790: Biologists tagged 98 tagged fish in a lake on January 1. On February​ 1, they returned and collected a random sample of 3333 ​fish, 1111 of which had been previously tagged. On the basis of this​ experiment, approximately how many fish does the lake​ have?
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    - Using proportions to estimate the number of fish in a lake
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