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While studying a population of porcupines, a group of scientists caught and tagged 95 porcupines. A week later, the scientists counted 640 porcupines and saw that 38 of them had tags. To the nearest whole number, what is the best estimate for the porcupine population?

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Explanation:

95/p=38/640

p=95(640)//38

p=1600

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