Critique graunts method for estimating population of london

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1. Critique Graunt's method for estimating the population of London. What implicit assumption is he making?

2. The London bills of mortality listed 12,246 deaths in 1658. Supposing that a survey of London parishes showed that roughly 2 percent of the population died that year, use Graunt's method to estimate London's population in 1658.

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