Question

Bob catches 100 rabbits in a certain area and marks them with tags. later, bob catches another 100 rabbits in the same area and notices that 10 of them have the tags from the first catch. based on this observation, he estimated that the rabbit population size is ____

Answer 1

Bob first caught and tagged 100 rabbits.

When he caught and tagged another set of rabbits, 10 of those were from the initial 100. This suggests that in the specific area, when he caught 100 rabbits the first time, he was seeing 10% of the population.

If 100 was 10%, then the total population is around 1,000 rabbits.