The students in a class get to decide on the color of the classroom. The two choices are blue and yellow. Polling shows yellow is preferred by a small majority, 53% for yellow to 47% for blue. However, before the vote is held, a new color choice is added: red. Not a lot of people like red, but there are some yellow supporters who would actually vote for red. The results of the vote are below. Blue Yellow Red 46% 44% 10% What statement below is correct about adding a third choice to the plurality vote? O a Ob Oc d Red did not win the vote, but it draws enough support away from yellow to make blue the winner, even though a majority of students preferred yellow over blue when there were two choices. Red did not win the vote, but it had no effect on drawing enough support away from yellow to make blue the winner, even though a majority of students preferred yellow over blue when there were two choices. Red did not win the vote, so because of this, yellow should win the vote over blue. Yellow did not win the vote, but because red draws enough support away from yellow to make blue the winner, yellow should get

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The students in a class get to decide on the color of the classroom. The two choices are blue and yellow. Polling shows yellow is preferred by a small
majority, 53% for yellow to 47% for blue. However, before the vote is held, a new color choice is added: red. Not a lot of people like red, but there are
some yellow supporters who would actually vote for red. The results of the vote are below.
Blue
Yellow
Red
46%
44%
10%
What statement below is correct about adding a third choice to the plurality vote?
O a
Ob
Oc
d
Red did not win the vote, but it draws enough support away from yellow to make blue the winner, even though a majority of
students preferred yellow over blue when there were two choices.
Red did not win the vote, but it had no effect on drawing enough support away from yellow to make blue the winner, even though
a majority of students preferred yellow over blue when there were two choices.
Red did not win the vote, so because of this, yellow should win the vote over blue.
Yellow did not win the vote, but because red draws enough support away from yellow to make blue the winner, yellow should get
reds votes.
Transcribed Image Text:The students in a class get to decide on the color of the classroom. The two choices are blue and yellow. Polling shows yellow is preferred by a small majority, 53% for yellow to 47% for blue. However, before the vote is held, a new color choice is added: red. Not a lot of people like red, but there are some yellow supporters who would actually vote for red. The results of the vote are below. Blue Yellow Red 46% 44% 10% What statement below is correct about adding a third choice to the plurality vote? O a Ob Oc d Red did not win the vote, but it draws enough support away from yellow to make blue the winner, even though a majority of students preferred yellow over blue when there were two choices. Red did not win the vote, but it had no effect on drawing enough support away from yellow to make blue the winner, even though a majority of students preferred yellow over blue when there were two choices. Red did not win the vote, so because of this, yellow should win the vote over blue. Yellow did not win the vote, but because red draws enough support away from yellow to make blue the winner, yellow should get reds votes.
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