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Question 4

Safur wants to estimate the number of deer in a forest.

He catches a sample of 48 deer, tags them and releases them back into the forest.

The following week, he takes a second sample of 48 deer.

6 of these deer have been tagged.

Work out an estimate for the number of deer in the forest and write down an assumption you have made.

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