SOLUTION: Please someone help!This is confusing. I do not know how to solve. To determine the number of deer in a game preserve a conservationist catches 790 deer, tags them and lets them

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Question 595685: Please someone help!This is confusing. I do not know how to solve.
To determine the number of deer in a game preserve a conservationist catches 790 deer, tags them and lets them go. Later 314 deer are captured; 157 of them are tagged. How many deer are in the game preserve?
Answer by jsmallt9(3758) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is a problem for a proportion.
            game            sample
            preserve

tagged =>   790             157
           -----      =    -----
total  =>    x              314

Just solve this proportion. (I suggest that you reduce the 2nd fraction (to 1/2) first.)