To estimate the size of the grizzly bear population in a national park, rangers tagged and released 12 grizzly bears into the park. A few months later, 2 out of 21 grizzly bears sighted were tagged. Assuming the population of tagged bears in the population, estimate the number of grizzly bears in the population of this national park.

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Kamari Blake

22 July, 02:38

To estimate the size of the grizzly bear population in a national park, rangers tagged and released 12 grizzly bears into the park. A few months later, 2 out of 21 grizzly bears sighted were tagged. Assuming the population of tagged bears in the population, estimate the number of grizzly bears in the population of this national park.

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Gustavo Kent · Answer 1

All these ratios people are having trouble with today.

Its pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

So they release 12 grizzly.

We can say 12/x since we dont know the amount of grizzly bears in total.

We can then set 12/x equal to 2/21 and solve for x by using cross multiplication