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Question 57

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

He catches a sample of 40 deer, tags them and releases them back into the forest.

The following week, he takes a second sample of 40 deer.

5 of these deer have been tagged.

a.

Verify that the estimate for the number of deer in the forest is 320.

[2]
b.

Write down an assumption you have made.

[1]
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