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Fish in Pond Calculation

Fish in pond Estimate

We have all of the information we need and can now do the calculations. It is helpful if we make up some values and then do calculations with the sample values.
markedFish: 100
sample: 100
sampleMarked: 12

Before you continue: Estimate the number of fish on paper for the example above. Write down every arithmetic operation you perform.

We can now write the algorithm as pseudo-code