A person catches 166 trout and tags them and throws then back into the lake. ater 36 trout are caught.12 are tagged .how many trout would the person except to be in the lake

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12/36=1/3 of those caught are tagged. It might be expected that a third of all the trout in the lake are tagged, so 3×166=498 can be expected to be in the lake.

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