Question

A population of 7000 fish experiences 1,000 deaths in a year.
What is
the population's death rate for that year?

Answer 1

Answer is 14.29 % death rate
Step by step

The death rate will be the years % decrease in the population of fishes.

Starting population of fish = 7000 fish

Death of fish for the year = 1000 fish

Population death rate for the year = dead fish for that year divided by starting population of fishes

Yearly death rate = 1000/7000
= .1429
Change to percent by moving the decimal two digits to the right

= 14.29%