A student wants to estimate the number of buttercups in a field.
The field measures 40 m by 25 m.
The student uses a square quadrat with sides of 0.5 m.
The mean number of buttercups in each quadrat is 3.
What is the estimated number of buttercups in the field?
1 5001\,5001500
3 0003\,0003000
6 0006\,0006000
12 00012\,00012000
109 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Biology 6.1 Monitoring and maintaining the environment, covering 6.1.1 Field investigation of distribution and abundance, 6.1.2 Human interactions and biodiversity, 6.1.3 Maintaining biodiversity, and 6.1.4 Environmental change and distribution of organisms. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.