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Park rangers wanted to find an estimate for the number of elephants in a reserve.
In March the park rangers caught 80 of the elephants.
They put a mark on each elephant and returned them to the reserve.
In April they caught 150 of the elephants.
They found that 40 of these elephants had been marked.
(a) Work out an estimate for the total number of elephants in the reserve.
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