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11.5 Exercise 13

Avg difficulty 2.5

Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state on November 16, 1907. Before Oklahoma joined the union, the U.S. population was approximately 75,030,000 and the House of Representatives had 386 seats. The new state had a population of approximately 970,000. Use this information to estimate the original standard divisor to the nearest hundred, the new population, the new house size, and the number of seats Oklahoma should receive.

OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, 11.5 Fairness in Apportionment Methods, exercise 13

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