SOLUTION: Biologists tagged 122 fish in a lake on January 1. On February 1, they returned and collected a random sample of 44 fish, 11 of which had been previously tagged. On the basis of ex

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Question 1093177: Biologists tagged 122 fish in a lake on January 1. On February 1, they returned and collected a random sample of 44 fish, 11 of which had been previously tagged. On the basis of experiment, approximately how many fish does the lake; have? There are approx how many fish in the lake?
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Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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one quarter of the fish in the lake 11/44 are assumed to be tagged.
Therefore, the number of tagged fish represents 1/4 of the number of the fish in the lake, or 122*4=488 fish in the lake.

Answer by ikleyn(52818) About Me  (Show Source):