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11.3 Exercise 9

Avg difficulty 2.5

The public schools in a certain county have been allotted 349 school resource officers to be distributed among 327 public schools attended by approximately 271,500 students.

  1. Identify the states, seats, house size, state population, and total population in this apportionment scenario.
  2. Describe the ratio the standard divisor represents in this scenario and calculate the standard divisor to the nearest tenth.

OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, 11.3 Standard Divisors, Standard Quotas, and the Apportionment Problem, exercise 9

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