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To determine the number of trouttrout in a lakelake​, a conservationistconservationist catches 360360 trouttrout​, tags​ them, and releases them. later 198198 trouttrout are​ caught, and it is found that 3636 of them are tagged. assuming that the proportion of tagged trouttrout in the second sample was the same as the proportion of tagged trouttrout in the total​ population, estimate the number of trouttrout in the lakelake.

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198 : 36 = 5.5 : 1

So the estimated population is 360 * 5.5 = 1980 trout

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