Question

I need help with this practice problem solving *just ignore the red scribbles, the numbers are near itI will send an additional pic that goes along with this

Answer 1

According to the problem the biodiversity index is given by:

`bi=\frac{\text{ total number of species }}{\text{ total number of individuals in the area}}`

In this problem we have 7 species. The find the total number of individuals in the area we just add the number of individuals in each specie, then we have:

`15+2+10+1+16+4+5=53`

Plugging the values we found in the formula given we have:

`bi=(7)/(53)`

Therefore, the biodiversity index is 7/53 (this is approximately 0.132 with three decimals)