An island has 12 fur seal rookeries (breeding places). To estimate the fur seal pup population in Rookery A, 5986 fur seal pups were tagged in early August. In late August, a sample of 700 pups
was observed, and 258 of these were found to have been previously tagged. Use a proportion to estimate the total number of fur seal pups in Rookery A
The estimated total number of fur seal pups in Rookery A is
(Round to the nearest whole number.)
