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Chapter 40.4, Problem 2CC
Imagine that you are constructing a life table for a different population of Belding’s ground squirrels (see Table 40.1). If 485 individuals are alive at the start of year 0-1 and 218 are still alive at the start of year 1-2, what is the proportion alive at the start of each of these years (see column 3 in Table 40.1)?
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