Three counties decide to form a task force consisting of 24 members apportioned to the counties according to population totals.
a. If Lane County has 46,000 people, Marion County 321,000, and Linn County 83,000, then how will the 24 members be apportioned according to Hamilton’s method?
b. When Benton County, with a populaton of 86,000, decides to join the task force, it is decided that the size of the task force will increase to 29 members. How will the 29 members be apportioned according to Hamilton’s method?
c. Compare the apportionments from parts (a) and (b). Describe what happened in the reapportionment. Did the new-states paradox occur?
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