Answer:
(c) about 2,081 deer
Step-by-step explanation:
We assume that the characteristics of the sample of the deer population match the characteristics of the population as a whole. This will be the case if the sample is random: each deer is equally likely to be included in the sample.
So, if 85 of the 110 marked deer show up in the sample, we assume that the sample is 85/110 of the entire population. For a sample size of 1608 deer, that means the population is estimated to be ...
1608 = 85/110 × population
population = 1608 × 110/85 = 2081 . . . . . deer in the total population
