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Find the apportionment under Adams’s method of the Inter-Fraternia Congress described in Exercise 9. (Hint: Express the modified divisors in terms of percents of the total population and look for suitable divisors in the interval 0.5% to 0.51%.)
9. The Interplanetary Federation of Fraternia consists of six planets: Alpha, Kappa, Beta Theta, Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, Epsilon Tau, and Phi Sigma
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Population Percentage | 11.37 | 8.07 | 38.62 | 14.98 | 10.42 | 16.54 |
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