Suppose the population density of a sample of a bagworm population is 45 per square meter.Assuming that the population is uniformly distributed,what would be the population size if the bagworms encompassed an area that was 1 km × 200 m?
A) 200,000
B) 900,000
C) 9 million
D) 20 million
E) 90 million

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The area is 1 km × 200 m, which is 1,000 m × 200 m = 200,000 square meters. With a density of 45 bagworms per square meter, the population size is 45 × 200,000 = 9 million.

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