Suppose you work for the National Park Service and are asked toestimate the size

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Suppose you work for the National Park Service and are asked toestimate the size of the crowd at the Obama inauguration (forsimplicity assume everyone in the crowed is on the National Malli.e., in a simple rectangle, and people are packed more densely onthe east side of the Mall near the Capitol). You have ahighly-resolved aerial photo and if you zoom in, you can identifyindividual people but it would take a long time to count everyonein a full census. How would you estimate the number of people inthe crowd and what would affect the accuracy of your estimate?

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