Jeff is a bird watcher. Every year in the first week of spring, he visits the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Pennsylvania. Last year
, he saw 12 Turkish vultures, 2 bald eagles, 4 northern goshawks, and 7 red-tailed hawks. Jeff didn’t see any other birds. This year, the sanctuary authorities are expecting 175 birds during the time he visits. Use this data to predict the count of each bird that will be in the sanctuary during this year’s visit.
On his first visit he saw a total of 25 birds: <span>12 Turkish vultures, 2 bald eagles, 4 northern goshawks, and 7 red-tailed hawks. And they expect 175 birds next year. If we divide 175/25=7, we find that there will be 7 times as many birds, so we now we can just multiply each amount of birds from before to predict next year: 84</span><span> Turkish vultures, 49 bald eagles, 28 northern goshawks, and 49 red-tailed hawks.</span>
