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11.1 Exercise 13

Avg difficulty 2.5

Let’s review the ballots from the kindergarten class again, as shown in the table below. This time, let’s determine the Borda score received by the color purple.

Number of Ballots 4 6 4 7
Red 2 6 2 5
Blue 1 2 1 4
Green 6 5 5 2
Yellow 5 4 6 3
Purple 4 3 4 1
Pink 3 1 3 6

OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, 11.1 Voting Methods, exercise 13

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