Burmese pythons (Python molurus bivittatus) are constricting snak...

Question

Burmese pythons (Python molurus bivittatus) are constricting snakes that can reach enormous sizes (up to 7 meters in length). They are native to Southeast Asia but were released into southern Florida from the pet trade. Many other snakes occur naturally in this area. Are the introduced pythons a problem?

The data in the graph show the number of pythons that were encountered, not the total number of pythons in the population. Design a mark–recapture experiment to estimate the total population size of pythons, and list at least two assumptions you would be making in your experiment.

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone here we have a question that says if 100 snakes were captured marked and released into the wild and then 50 were captured again a few days later, only 10 were marked. What would be the population estimate? So we're gonna use the equation capital in equals capital M. Times lower case in over em. So capital in equals our population size, which is what we're looking for. Capital. M. Is the number of snakes that were marked, So that equals 100 lower case. N. Is the number of snakes caught during recapture, So that equals 50. Lower case in Is the number of mark snakes in the recapture, so that equals 10. So in equals times 50 over 10. So that equals 500. So our answer here is B 500. Thank you for watching. Bye.

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