Question

(8 36)A large chain store needs to assign 1 buyers to its five stores. (a)Determine how many buyers each store should receive using Jefferson's method and (b) Indicate the modified divisor used (answers may vary). Round the divisor to the nearest tenth, if necessary Store # of Employees Number of Buyers Store 1 78 Store 2 41 Store 3 75 Store 4 80 Store 5 53 Words English (US) 13 MacBook

Answer 1

standard divisor = Total No. of Employees/total No. of seats/buyers = (78 + 41 + 75 + 80 + 53)/11 = 327/11 = 29.73 No we divide each store's employees by standard divisor to get No. of buyers for that store Now we have to modify our standard divisor to get integer sum 11, so we are trying putting values near to 29.73 .ie. 29, 28.5, 28, 27, 275, 26.8, 26 we get integer total 11 at 26. Hence our modified standard divisor is 26. rightwardsdoublearrow No. of Buyers for each store are store 1 rightarrow 3, store 2 rightarrow 1, store 3 rightarrow 2, store 4 rightarrow 3 store 5 rightarrow 2