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eas e show work and calculations 1 estion. Attacn extra pages iI necessary. iI no work is shown, you will not receive points. Please use 3 decimal points in all your calculations 1. You counted the number of black-tailed prairie dogs of different ages in a population during a single sampling event. There are 100 newborns, 40 1-year-olds, 15 2-year-olds, 5 3-year-olds, and 0 4-year-olds. Use these data to fill in the N, S, and le columns of the life table below. Table 1. Life table for black-tailed prairie dogs. Age class (x)N Tabk lu is ahe e

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in the above question, Nx is the number of dogs at start of the year or the number in age class.

Sx is age specific survival or likelihood of living at a given age.

Lx is survivorship from birth to age class x.

Lx = Nx/N0

age class(x) NX SX LX 0 100 0.4 1 1 40 0.375 0.4 2 15 0.333 0.15 3 5 0 0.05 4 0 0

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