Anabru Manufacturing has 100 forklift trucks to apportion among 3 factories. The trucks are to be apportioned

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Anabru Manufacturing has 100 forklift trucks to apportion among 3 factories. The trucks are to be apportioned based on the number of employees at each factory as shown in the table below 

Total Factory A Employees 40,000 3822 7818 28,360


(a) Apportion the trucks using Hamilton’s method. 

(b) Suppose that 1 year later the factories have the following number of employees. If the 100 forklift trucks are reap-portioned to the factories, does the population paradox occur using Hamilton’s method?


When appropriate, round quotas and divisors to the nearest hundredth.

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A Survey of Mathematics with Applications

ISBN: 978-0134112107

10th edition

Authors: Allen R. Angel, Christine D. Abbott, Dennis Runde

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