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A county has three districts. Eight representatives are to be appointed to the county board. The standard divisor is 64.87564.875 and the standard quota for each district is shown below. (a) Find the upper and lower quotas for each district and (b) determine how many representatives each district should receive using Hamilton's method.
 District 123 Standard quota 3.5452.5281.927\begin{array}{l|ccc}\text { District } & 1 & 2 & 3 \\\hline \text { Standard quota } & 3.545 & 2.528 & 1.927\end{array}

A) (a)
 District 123 Lower quota 321 Upper quota 432\begin{array}{l|lll}\text { District } & 1 & 2 & 3 \\\hline \text { Lower quota } & 3 & 2 & 1 \\\text { Upper quota } & 4 & 3 & 2\end{array}
(b)
 District 123 Representatives 431\begin{array}{l|ccc}\text { District } & 1 & 2 & 3 \\\hline \text { Representatives } & 4 & 3 & 1\end{array}

B) (a)
 District 123 Lower quota 321 Upper quota 432\begin{array}{l|lll}\text { District } & 1 & 2 & 3 \\\hline \text { Lower quota } & 3 & 2 & 1 \\\text { Upper quota } & 4 & 3 & 2\end{array}

(b)
 District 123 Representatives 422\begin{array}{l|lll}\text { District } & 1 & 2 & 3 \\\hline \text { Representatives } & 4 & 2 & 2\end{array}

C) (a)
 District 123 Lower quota 432 Upper quota 543\begin{array}{l|ccc}\text { District } & 1 & 2 & 3 \\\hline \text { Lower quota } & 4 & 3 & 2 \\\text { Upper quota } & 5 & 4 & 3\end{array}
(b)
 District 123 Representatives 422\begin{array}{l|lll}\text { District } & 1 & 2 & 3 \\\hline \text { Representatives } & 4 & 2 & 2\end{array}

D) (a)
 District 123 Lower quota 432 Upper quota 543\begin{array}{l|ccc}\text { District } & 1 & 2 & 3 \\\hline \text { Lower quota } & 4 & 3 & 2 \\\text { Upper quota } & 5 & 4 & 3\end{array}

(b)
 District 123 Representatives 431\begin{array}{l|lll}\text { District } & 1 & 2 & 3 \\\hline \text { Representatives } & 4 & 3 & 1\end{array}

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