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I need help with this practice,I will send you an additional pic that goes along with this problem Freya went to her local park to find 5 organisms/species She found 5 and wrote down the name of these organisms and the quantity of each she seen:Eastern gray squirrels/14 individualsWolf spiders/2 individualsPaper wasps/9 individualsBlack vulture/1 individualNorthern cardinals/7 individuals

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ANSWER :

The answer is 5/33 or 0.15

EXPLANATION :

From the problem, we have a total of 5 number of species.

Using the given Biodiversity Index formula :


\frac{\text{ total number of species}}{\text{ total number of individuals}}=(5)/(14+2+9+1+7)=(5)/(33)\quad or\quad0.1515

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