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11.4 Exercise 13

Avg difficulty 2.5

Suppose that the Hawaii State Department of Education has a budget for 616 schools and is doing a research study to determine the equitable number of schools to have in each of five counties based on the residents under the age of 19. With the data in the table below, apply Jefferson’s method to apportion the schools to the counties.

Hawaii Honolulu Kalawao Kauai Maui Total
Residents under Age 19 46,310 224,230 20 16,560 38,450 325,570

OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, 11.4 Apportionment Methods, exercise 13

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