Apportionment
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Main Idea of Apportionment | "If a state has 30% of the population, it should get 30% of the seats." |
| % of Population for a state | The states population divided by the total pop (and then expressed as a percent) |
| Step 2 of Apportionment | Now multiply the percent of the pop (put decimal back where it was before moved for percent) by the total # of seats to get each seats fair share. |
| Cannot give state | a fraction of a seat |
| Another way to compute fair shares | take the total pop and divide it by the # of seats. This is called the standard divisor and it tells us how many people each state represents. |
| So to finde the fair share for a state | take the pop of that state and divide it by the standard divisor. |
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