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At Apportion High School, class sizes are kept small. The school boasts that their avera...

At Apportion High School, class sizes are kept small. The school boasts that their average class size is less than 20. The school’s only Spanish teacher can teach 5 sections of Spanish each day. Classes are apportioned based on enrollment.

Enrollment figures for the winter quarter are listed in the following table. An advanced Spanish class was added to the schedule, and a part-time instructor was hired to teach two classes in addition to the five that the full-time Spanish teacher covers. Apportion the seven winter-term sections of Spanish classes according to Jefferson’s method and Webster’s method. Which apportionment method do you think works best in this situation? Explain.

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Solutions For Problems in Chapter 5.2