Keith manages the fire department of a certain city. The fire department is adding 75 firefighters to its force, and Keith needs to allocate them to four districts according to the districts' populations. The table below shows the districts and their populations. District Population District Cartagena 1797 Lower quota Upper quota Oriente Cartagena 0 1335 (a) Help Keith by finding the lower and upper quotas for each district using the standard divisor. Emden Oriente 0 0 Emden 0 0 0 (b) What would happen if Keith tried to allocate the lower quota to each district? 1248 Fargo 828 He would have firefighters still available that were not allocated. He would have firefighter(s) still available. O He would allocate all of the firefighters exactly. Fargo 0 0 He would be trying to allocate too many firefighters. He would be trying to allocate more firefighter(s) than he has available. Total 5208
Keith manages the fire department of a certain city. The fire department is adding 75 firefighters to its force, and Keith needs to allocate them to four districts according to the districts' populations. The table below shows the districts and their populations. District Population District Cartagena 1797 Lower quota Upper quota Oriente Cartagena 0 1335 (a) Help Keith by finding the lower and upper quotas for each district using the standard divisor. Emden Oriente 0 0 Emden 0 0 0 (b) What would happen if Keith tried to allocate the lower quota to each district? 1248 Fargo 828 He would have firefighters still available that were not allocated. He would have firefighter(s) still available. O He would allocate all of the firefighters exactly. Fargo 0 0 He would be trying to allocate too many firefighters. He would be trying to allocate more firefighter(s) than he has available. Total 5208
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Lower and upper quotas
Keith manages the fire department of a certain city. The fire department is adding 75 firefighters to its force, and Keith needs to allocate them to four districts
according to the districts' populations. The table below shows the districts and their populations.
District
Population
District
Cartagena
1797
Lower quota
Upper quota
Oriente
(a) Help Keith by finding the lower and upper quotas for each district using the standard divisor.
Explanation
1335
Cartagena
Emden
0
0
0
0
(b) What would happen if Keith tried to allocate the lower quota to each district?
O He would be trying to allocate too many firefighters.
He would be trying to allocate more firefighter(s) than he has available.
Check
Emden
1248
Oriente
0
0
He would have firefighters still available that were not allocated.
He would have firefighter(s) still available.
He would allocate all of the firefighters exactly.
Fargo
828
5
Fargo
0
0
&
7
Total
5208
X
8
X
5
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