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(Solved): A teacher wishes to distribute 25 identical pieces of candy among 4 students, based on how many pag ...
A teacher wishes to distribute 25 identical pieces of candy among 4 students, based on how many pages of a book they read last month. The table below lists the total number of pages read by each student. Apportion the candy using Hamilton's Method. Dwayne's final apportionment: Max's final apportionment: Ermias's final apportionment: Katelyn's final apportionment: Has the Quota Rule been violated? Yes No
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The teacher wishes to distribute 25 candies among the 4 given students.So, the total number of pages read by all four of them = = 2320So, the divisor = = 92.8Now, by Hamilton's method, at first, the whole number of the quotient is kept and the fraction dropped. This will result in surplus candies, So, then the surplus candies are assigned to the student with the largest fraction after the original division. The next is assigned to the student with the second-largest fraction and so on.