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to determine the number of deer in a forest, a forest ranger tags 280 and releases them back into the forest, later 405 deer are caught out of which 45 of them are tagged. estimate how many deer are in the forest

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if the ranger tags 280 and later catches 405 and 45 are tagged just simply

405 + 280 = 685
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