Question on total population size

Question on total population size

Postby Guest » Wed Aug 22, 2018 2:09 am

Fifty white-tailed deer in a region are captured an ear-tagged, then released. Six months later, 50 more deer are captured, 35 of which are ear-tagged. Assuming the second group is representative of the deer population as a whole, what is the total population size (rounded to the nearest integer)?
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Re: Question on total population size

Postby Guest » Thu Oct 04, 2018 6:18 pm

Guest wrote:Fifty white-tailed deer in a region are captured an ear-tagged, then released. Six months later, 50 more deer are captured, 35 of which are ear-tagged. Assuming the second group is representative of the deer population as a whole, what is the total population size (rounded to the nearest integer)?



You can estimate the population using this formula: Population Estimate = [(total number captured)(number tagged)]/(total number captured with tag)
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