You want to estimate how many fish there are in a small pond. Lets suppose that you

Chapter 14, Problem 7

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You want to estimate how many fish there are in a small pond. Lets suppose that you first capture n1 = 500 fish, tag them, and throw them back into the pond. After a couple of days you go back to the pond and capture n2 = 120 fish, of which k = 30 are tagged. Estimate the number of fish in the pond.

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QUESTION:

You want to estimate how many fish there are in a small pond. Lets suppose that you first capture n1 = 500 fish, tag them, and throw them back into the pond. After a couple of days you go back to the pond and capture n2 = 120 fish, of which k = 30 are tagged. Estimate the number of fish in the pond.

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Step 1 of 2

To estimate the number of fish in the pond. Since in this problem number of sample relies on three variable we will use two sample method or capture-recapture method.

By definition the method is

where  and  are first and second sample size

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