Applications: More on Apportionment.

Flusser, Peter

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Publication Date: 1994

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Applications: More on Apportionment.

Flusser, Peter

Mathematics Teacher, v87 n7 p560-64 Oct 1994

Discusses the mathematics of weighted voting schemes, including representative government. Shows how power is a decreasing function of population size and how tiny parties can have the same power as large constituencies. (MKR)

Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Mathematical Applications, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Probability, Ratios (Mathematics), Secondary Education, Statistics, Voting

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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