A fish farmer wanted to know the number of fish in a pond. He collected 10 fish from the pond and labeled each, by a tag...

      

A fish farmer wanted to know the number of fish in a pond. He collected 10 fish from the pond
and labeled each, by a tag label on its fin and returned the ten fish to the pond to mix with
other fish . When he later collected 50 fish from the pond, he found only four of them had labels

a) Estimate the total number of fish in the pond (show your workings)
b) What two assumptions are being made in this methods of estimating population

  

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Kavungya
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Kavungya answered the question on June 15, 2019 at 06:58


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