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11.1 Exercise 21

Avg difficulty 2.5

  1. Suppose there is an election with five candidates—A, B, C, D, and E—and that Candidate C is a Condorcet candidate. How many points did Candidate C win?
  2. What is the greatest number of points that any one of the other candidates could win?
  3. Is it possible for Candidate C to lose or tie?

OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, 11.1 Voting Methods, exercise 21

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