Polling roundup (H). A polling organization wants to survey voters in Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. The total population of these four states is about 6 million. The population of Montana is about 1 million, Idaho is about 1.6 million, Utah is about 2.8 million, and Wyoming is about 0.6 mill ion. If the pollsters plan to survey 1200 people altogether, about how many should they survey from each state if they want the proportion of people surveyed from each state to equal the proportion of that state’s population of the whole 6 million?
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