Find the apportionment under Adams’s method of the Margarita Congress described in Exercise 10. (Hint: Express the modified divisors in terms of percents of the total population and look for suitable divisors in the interval 0.81% to 0.82%.)
10. The small island nation of Margarita is made up of four islands: Aleta, Bonita, Corona, and
Table 4-28
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Population Percentage | 6.24 | 26.16 | 28.48 | 39.12 |
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