island has 12 fur seal rookies(breeding places). To estimate the fur seal pup population in Rookery A, 5265 fur seal pups were targeted in early August. I'm late August, a sample of 600 pups was observed, and 244 of these were found to have been previously tagged. Use a proportion to estimate the total number of the seal pups in Rookery A.

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An island has 12 fur seal rookies(breeding places). To estimate the fur seal pup population in Rookery A, 5265 fur seal pups were targeted in early August. I'm late August, a sample of 600 pups was observed, and 244 of these were found to have been previously tagged. Use a proportion to estimate the total number of the seal pups in Rookery A. 

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