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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2014 Paper 1 18 d Solution by
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When only a tiny fraction of either species is removed, the trout fraction among the remaining fish stays nearly constant at . Successive catches are then approximately independent trials with that fixed success probability. The count therefore approaches the binomial distributionThe approximation comes from negligible depletion, not from an exact independence property of sampling without replacement.
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