Apportionment

Question 1

What is a standard divisor?

Answer 1

The number determined by dividing the total population over the number of seats available

Question 2

What is a standard quota?

Answer 2

A number determined by the state population over the standard divisor

Question 3

What are seats in apportionment?

Answer 3

The number of available resources.

Question 4

What are the states in apportionment?

Answer 4

The states are referred to as regions of certain populations

Question 5

What is Hamilton’s method

Answer 5

1) Give each state it’s lower quota seats
2) if there are any extra seats, give one extra seat to the highest ranked decimal, and give the other extra seats to the second to Nth highest decimal until all the seats have been apportioned

Question 6

What is the Jefferson’s method?

Answer 6

1) Give each state it’s lower quota
2) divide each state population with a modified divisor less than the standard divisor
3) the modified divisor should make the state receive its modified lower quota of seats so the correct number of seats can be apportioned.

Question 7

What is Huntington-Hill method?

Answer 7

After finding the standard quota, the person needs to determine the Huntington-Hill rounding cutoff by square rooting the lower quota multiplied by the upper quota

1) if the standard quota is less than the rounding cutoff, round down to the lower quota
2) if the standard quota is greater than or equal to the rounding cutoff, round up to the upper quota.