Chapter 4, Problem 14E

Find the apportionment under Hamilton’s method of the University Hospital nurses to the five units described in Exercise 4.

4. University Hospital has five major units: Emergency Care (ECU), Intensive Care (ICU), Maternity (MU), Pediatrics (PU), and Surgery (SU). There are 250 nurses working in these five units and they are apportioned to the units based on the number of beds in each unit, shown in $\underset{\_}{\text{Table}4-24}$.

$Table4-24$

Unit	ECU	ICU	MU	PU	SU
Beds	$21$	$19$	$35$	$30$	$25$

a. Find the standard divisor.

b. Explain what the standard divisor represents in this problem.

c. Find the standard quotas (rounded to three decimal places).