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Five board members of a company must decide between two other board members (A and B) for a certain position. The voters are concerned with two issues and their ideal points are represented as ordered pairs: (1, 5), (3, 4), (5, 2), (6, 4), and (6, 2). Assume that A and B announce policy positions of (1, 2) and (5, 4), respectively.
-How many board members would vote for B based on ideal points?

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To determine which board members would vote for B, we calculate the distance between each board member's ideal point and the policy positions of A and B. The policy position closer to a board member's ideal point is the one they would vote for. B's policy position is (5, 4). Comparing distances, it's clear that the ideal points (3, 4), (5, 2), (6, 4), and (6, 2) are closer to B's position than to A's, resulting in 4 board members voting for B.

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