SOLUTION: biologist tagged and released 330 deer. A month later she captured 40 deer, 30 of which had tags. About how many deer were in the population?

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Question 926361: biologist tagged and released 330 deer. A month later she captured 40 deer, 30 of which had tags. About how many deer were in the population?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) About Me  (Show Source):
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Notice that in the capture of the 40 deer, 3%2F4 of those 40 had tags.
330 is 3%2F4 of the whole deer population.