To determine the number of deer in a game preserve, a forest ranger cataches 234 deer, tags them, and release them. Later 148 deer are caught, and it is found that 75 of them are tagged. Estimate how many deer there are in the game preserve?

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To determine the number of deer in a game preserve, a forest ranger  cataches 234 deer, tags them, and release them. Later 148 deer are caught, and it is found that 75 of them are tagged. Estimate how many deer there are in the game preserve?

anonymous · Answer

Well, it is only one statistic so not very reliable, about 50%.

So maybe 2* 234 = 468 and he tagged half of them

anonymous · Answer

Round to the nearest interger

anonymous · Answer

462?  (Like I said this method is not reliable,I would round to nearest 10 and I would probably still be off)