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Choose the accurate description of the power status in each weighted voting system.  (These are the systems in the previous three problems.)        

The next two questions relate to the following set-up. An international alliance involves three nation-states A, B, and C, and has a governing council with 20 seats apportioned by population. 20 seats Population A 32,000 B 25,000 C 13,000 Total 70,000 Successful Divisors for Webster, Adams, and Jefferson can be chosen from the following list:3060, 3260, 3360, 3460, 3560

Determine who is a majority candidate if there is one.

The 2020 Census for the US population is approximately 332,000,000, and the New York population is approximately 20,216,000. This makes the Standard Divisor for the 435-seat House of Representatives (rounded to thousands place). New York’s Lower Quota is and the Upper Quota is .  

Using the Shapley-Shubik Power Distribution and the weighted voting system , what is the value of the power index for player 1 (what is σ1)?

Three partners are dividing a piece of land worth $81,000 among themselves using the lone-divider method. The following table shows the value of the parcels in the eyes of each partner   S1 S2 S3 Rita $28,000 $21,000 $32,000 Tammy $26,000 $24,000 $31,000 Stu $27,000 $27,000 $27,000 The table indicates that was the divider. Tammy finds to be fair. A fair resolution according to Lone Divider would be  

Xavier and Yadina are dividing a circular cake that is half chocolate and half vanilla.  Both see the cake as worth $12.00. Xavier sees the chocolate side as having three times the value of the vanilla side. Yadina sees the chocolate side as having five times the value of the vanilla side.   The chocolate half is worth to Xavier. The chocolate half is worth to Yadina.

Use Webster’s Method to apportion the 20 seats and use it to answer the questions below. The successful Modified Divisor is . A receives seats. B receives seats. C receives seats.

Refer to the Chart from Question 22 above. If instead you were going to use the “Cheapest Link Algorithm”,  what are the first two “links” that would be selected?