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3. A team of biologists tagged 48 seals off the coast of an island. Later they captured a
sample of seals from the same area and found that 15% of them had tags. Use this
information to estimate the number of seals in the area.

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A team of biologists tagged 48 seals off the coast of an island.

later they captured a sample of seals from the same area and 15% of them had tags.

Estimate the total number of seals.

15 : 100 : : 48 : x

x

=4,800/15

=320

The total number of seals is about 320.

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