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Assigning Faculty to Courses The English department at Oaks College has the faculty to offer 11 sections in any combination of these four courses: Fiction Writing, Poetry, Short Story, and Multicultural Literature. The number of sections apportioned to each course is based on enrollments in the courses as shown
Course | FictionWriting | Poetry | ShortStory | MulticulturalLiterature |
Enrollment | 56 | 35 | 78 | 100 |
(a) Find the total enrollment for the four courses and the standard divisor for the apportionment of the 11 sections.
(b) Use the Hamilton method to apportion the sections.
(c) Use the Jefferson method to apportion the sections.
(d) Round the values of all of the courses’ standard quotas, using a traditional rounding scheme. Is the sum of the traditionally rounded values less than, equal to, or greater than the number of sections to be apportioned?
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