Chapter 15.3, Problem 5E

Solve each problem.

New Trees for Wisconsin Parks The schoolchildren of Wisconsin began a statewide effort one year to raise money to purchase new trees for five state parks. Altogether, the students raised enough money to purchase 239 trees. A committee decided that the trees should be apportioned based on the amount of land in each of the five parks as shown.

State park	a	b	c	d	e
Acres	1429	8639	7608	6660	5157

(a) Find the total number of acres in the five state parks, and compute the standard divisor for the apportionment of the 239 trees.

(b) Use the Hamilton method to apportion the trees.

(c) Use the Jefferson method to apportion the trees. As always, the modified divisor needed for the Jefferson apportionment is found by slowly decreasing the value of the standard divisor computed in part (a). Use $md=122$.