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The winner using majority if any, if not, use plurality vote if a taste test is conducted on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. People are given samples of Coke, Pepsi and Safeway brands of cola in unmarked cups, and are then asked to rank them in order of preferences.

Answer to Problem 1CR
Solution:
There is no majority.
The item
Explanation of Solution
For this election, the total number of voters is
In Majority rule, if the number of voters is
If the number of voters is
For this election,
Hence the majority is,
From the results of the outcomes, look only at first choices and write the total votes for each item as below:
The total number of first-choice votes for the item
The total number of first-choice votes for the item
The total number of first-choice votes for the item
Hence, according to Majority rule, no item receives a majority.
According to Plurality method, the item receiving the most votes is declared the winner.
Here item
Therefore the item
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