Chapter 4, Problem 31E

Find the apportionment under Adams’s method of the Republic of Tropicana legislature described in Exercise 5. (Hint: Look for suitable divisors in the interval 205,000 to 206,000.)

The Republic of Tropicana is a small country consisting of five states $\left(A,B,C,D,\text{and }E\right)$. The total population of Tropicana is 27.4 million. According to the Tropicana constitution, the seats in the legislature are apportioned to the states according to their population. Table 4-25 shows each states standard quota:

Table 4-25

State	$A$	$B$	$C$	$D$	$E$
Standard quota	41.2	31.9	24.8	22.6	16.5