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Alina [70]
4 years ago
15

A wildlife service wanted to estimate the number of alligators in a river so they tagged 90 alligators and released them back in

to the river. Later they found that a sample of 200 alligators contained 23 that were tagged. Assuming that the tagged alligators are evenly distributed, what is the best estimate of the number of alligators in the river?
This is from a practice test I found online for a placement test for a community college. I have never encountered these type of word problems before. I don't even know where to start.
Mathematics
1 answer:
lilavasa [31]4 years ago
5 0
You can solve this with a proportion. If you know that 23 tagged alligators were in a 200 alligator sample, there are 90 tagged alligators in the entire river. Written otherwise:

23/200 = 90/x    

and solve for x:

x = 782.608...

So the "best estimate" would be around 783 alligators. Hope that helps! If you liked this answer please rate it as brainliest!! thank you!!!
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