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11.3 Exercise 11

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Example 27 outlined that the Census.gov website U.S. Population clock showed a population of 330,147,881, there are 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the standard divisor was 758,960.6 people per representative. The state of California has a population of approximately 39,613,000. Use these values to determine the standard quota for California to two decimal places.

OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, 11.3 Standard Divisors, Standard Quotas, and the Apportionment Problem, exercise 11

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