Data from a deer count in forested area show that an estimated 3.16 x 10^3 deer inhabit 1.998 x 10^4 acres of land. What is the density of the deer population?

Is this a multiplication or division problem?

You probably want to express the density as

so many deer per acre
we are given :
3.16x10^3 deer per 1.998x10^4 acres
= (3.16x10^3) / (1.998x10^4) deer/acre
= .158158.. deer/acre

or appr 158 deer/ 1000 acres
(don't like to see .158 of a deer)

thanks. this really helped

This is a division problem. To find the density of the deer population, we need to divide the number of deer by the number of acres of land.

To determine the density of the deer population, we need to calculate the number of deer per unit area. Density is obtained by dividing the number of deer by the area of land on which they are found.

Given data:
Number of deer = 3.16 x 10^3 deer
Area of land = 1.998 x 10^4 acres

Since we need to divide the number of deer by the area, this is a division problem.