Mindscapes 10 through 15 are based on the following musical scenario.
The editors of the five top rap e-zines vote on the best rapper of the year (winning the “Wrapper Award,” which is made of aluminum foil). The candidates for this year’s Wrapper rapper are some of the best musical artists around: Acid Burn Baby Burn, Billie Hooker, Cool KK, and Doctor DoDo. The chart below shows the vote tally. Suppose that each voter considered his or her first and second choices acceptable winners and the last two as unacc eptable for this prestigious honor.
We now wonder who should win this year’s Wrapper Award.
The Hooker rules! (H) You are such a diehard fan of Billie Hooker that you are going to make it to her concert by hook or by crook. Which voting scheme discussed in this section could you employ in order to have B win the Wrapper?
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