An island has 12 fur seal rookeries to estemate the fur seal pup population in rookery A, 4727 fur seal pups were tagged in early august. In late august a sample of 600 pups were observed and 200 of these were found to have been previously tagged. Use a proportion to estimate the total number of fur seal pups in rookery A.

14,181

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the total population of seal pups = p

Ratio of Tagged to Total seal pups observed is given as:

200:600

Population of Tagged to Total Population therefore is:

4727: p

Equating both ratios

200:600=4727:p

200/600=4727/p

200 X p = 4727 X 600

p = (4727 X 600) / 200

p=14,181

The total population of fur seals pups is 14,181