Elections that use apportionment can have a winner of an election that is not the winner of the popular vote. Fill in the answers to the questions below to follow how electoral winners and popular winners are different. A small state is split into 5 equal counties that each have 10 electoral votes.

a. How many total electoral votes does the state have?

b. How many counties would a candidate need to win in order to win the electoral vote?

c. Each county has 100 voters. How many votes are needed to win a counties 10 electoral votes?

d. Using the result from b & c, find the minimum number of votes needed to win the election.

e. There are 500 total voters in the state, using the result from part d, how many votes could a candidate have and still lose the election?

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