Question

A documentary showed rare breeds of birds being tagged in a specific area. The researches tagged 50 birds. When the researches returned they counted 600 birds, 10 of which had tags.


What would be a good estimate of how many rare breed birds are in this area?

Answer 1

Answer:

333 species of birds

Answer 2

A good estimate of the number of rare breed birds in this specific area will be given as 3000.

What are ratio and proportion?

A ratio is an ordered couple of numbers a and b, written as a/b where b can not equal 0. A proportion is an equation in which two ratios are set equal to each other.

A documentary showed rare breeds of birds being tagged in a specific area. The researchers tagged 50 birds. When the researchers returned they counted 600 birds, 10 of which had tags.

Let the total number of the birds be x, then we have

$\rm \dfrac{x}{50} = \dfrac{600}{10}\\\\x = 3000$

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