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Quiz 3

1. A college has a 20-seat student parliament. The seats are apportioned to the three schools according to the number of students. The School of Education has 1500 students, A&S has 1800 and Business 1000.

a) Find the standard divisor. What does this number represent?

SD= 4400/20 =220 students per seat

b) Use Hamilton’s method to apportion the seats. Show your work in the table below.

School	Population	SQ	LQ	UQ	Hamilton
Education	1600	7.27	7	8	7
A&S	1800	8.18	8	9	8
Business	1000	4.55	4	5	5
Total	4400	20	19		20

c) Use the Adams’s method to apportion the seats. What modified divisor did you use? (Keep track of your attempts in the extra columns of the table if you’d like.)

School	Population	UQ D=220	UQ D=230	Adams D= 230
Education	1600	8	7	7
A&S	1800	9	8	8
Business	1000	5	5	5
Total	4400	22 too high	20