Apportionment method criteria

Balance (apportionment)

Balance or balancedness is a property of apportionment methods, which are methods of allocating identical items between among agens, such as dividing seats in a parliament among political parties or federal states. The property says that, if two agents have exactly the same entitlements, then the number of items they receive should differ by at most one. So if two parties win the same number of votes, or two states have the same populations, then the number of seats they receive should differ by at most one. Ideally, agents with identical entitlements should receive an identical number of items, but this may be impossible due to the indivisibility of the items. Balancedness requires that the difference between identical-entitlement agents should be the smallest difference allowed by the indivisibility, which is 1. For example, if there are 2 equal-entitlement agents and 9 items, then the allocations (4,5) and (5,4) are both allowed, but the allocations (3,6) or (6,3) are not - a difference of 3 is not justified even by indivisibility. (Wikipedia).

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Solving an Absolute Value Equation and Checking for Extraneous Solutions

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Apportionment: The Alabama Paradox

This video explains and provides an example of the Alabama paradox. Site: http://mathispower4u.com

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Apportionment: Hamilton's Method

This video explains and provides an example of the Hamilton's method of apportionment.. Site: http://mathispower4u.com

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Apportionment: Huntington-Hill Method

This video explains and provides an example of the Huntington-Hill method of apportionment. Site: http://mathispower4u.com

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Apportionment: Webster's Method

This video explains Webster's method of apportionment. Site: http://mathispower4u.com

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Apportionment: Jefferson's Method

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Math for Liberal Studies: Apportionment -- Introduction

In this video, we learn the basic concepts we use to solve apportionment problems. Once you have watched this video, you're ready to learn about how to actually solve an apportionment problem using one of the methods below: Hamilton's Method: Jefferson's Method: Adams' Method: Webster's

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The video explains the new states paradox and provides an example of the population paradox. Site: http://mathispower4u.com

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This is the first video lecture for Math for Liberal Studies Section 2.7: Apportionment. In this video, I give an overview of the apportionment problem: assigning representatives to states based on their population.

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This is the second video lecture for Math for Liberal Studies Section 2.7: Apportionment. In this video, we learn how to use Hamilton's Method to assign a whole number of seats to each state based on their population. We also discuss several "paradoxes" that result from this method.

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