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Question 820328: In a capture-recapture study, a biologist tagged and released 200 deer. A month later she captured 50 deer, 10 of which had tags. About how many deer were in the population? Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source):
Hi,
In a capture-recapture study, a biologist tagged and released 200 deer.
A month later she captured 50 deer, 10 of which had tags.
About how many deer were in the population? Cross Multiplying to solve
10X = 10000 , the number of deer in the population
