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In a servey of trout populations, biologists caught and marketed 232 trout from a lake. Three months later the biologist selected a second sample of 329 trout from the lake, and 16 were found to be marked. Assuming that the 232 marked trout intermingled freely with unmarked trout during the 3-month period, estimate the number of trout in the lake
 
There are X trout.
marked: 232/X
232/X=16/239
Solve for X
 
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