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a fish and a game warden captures and tags 66 deer in a local forest. a month later he captures 100 deer and finds that 17 of them are tagged. estimate the number of deer in the forest.

A.149
B.1,022
C.578
D.389

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NEED HELP WILL GIVE MEDAL AND FAN
a fish and a game warden captures and tags 66 deer in a local forest. a month later he captures 100 deer and finds that 17 of them are tagged. estimate the number of deer in the forest.

A.149
B.1,022
C.578
D.389

anonymous · Answer

@dan815

anonymous · Answer

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP

anonymous · Answer

@perl

anonymous · Answer

What do you think?

anonymous · Answer

thats the thing im very confused

anonymous · Answer

Ok. So how many deer were tagged by the warden, ONLY BY THE WARDEN himself?

anonymous · Answer

im thinking it might be b

anonymous · Answer

it does not say

anonymous · Answer

No, but how many deer were tagged by the warden himself.

anonymous · Answer

17

iyuko · Answer

Is this the entire question? Did you leave some out by any chance?

anonymous · Answer

nope this is it

iyuko · Answer

So he tags 66 deer right?

anonymous · Answer

Yes, now how many does he capture in the next month?

anonymous · Answer

oh crap oops ya....i was focused on the 17

anonymous · Answer

the next month  he gets 100 deer

anonymous · Answer

And how many are tagged but NOT BY the warden?

iyuko · Answer

what he did was basically mark 66 and let them all go, and those deer lets say all got randomly distributed in that forest

anonymous · Answer

i dont know cause it only says combined

anonymous · Answer

No, it said nothing about letting the 66 deers go.

anonymous · Answer

Let's focus on the next month scenario. He capture 100 deer but 17 are tagged by somebody else.

iyuko · Answer

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