1. Suppose there are two parties A and B. In an upcoming election, 71% of the populationwill vote for A and 29% for B. In this problem, assume all voting districts have thesame population (and that everyone votes and that the voting population is large).i) Explain why B cannot win the election if there are 5 districts.ii) Demonstrate how B can win the election if there are 9 districts.iii) Compute the efficiency gap for your example in ii).

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