Consider the following apportionment problem for College Town. Suppose each council member is to represent approximately 2,500 citizens. Use the apportionment plan requested in the problem, assuming there must be 10 representatives.

Question

North: 5,500
South: 9,000
East: 6,400
West: 4,100
(a) Adams' plan.
North:
South:
East:
West:

Answer 1

Start by dividing each population by 2,500. Round to the nearest whole number.

What do you get?

Answer 2

Adams' plan.
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