Chapter 4, Problem 34E

Find the apportionment under Adams’s method of the Margarita Congress described in Exercise 10. (Hint: Express the modified divisors in terms of percents of the total population and look for suitable divisors in the interval 0.81% to 0.82%.)

10. The small island nation of Margarita is made up of four islands: Aleta, Bonita, Corona, and $\left(A,B,C,\text{and }D\text{ for short}\right)$. There are 125 seats in the Margarita Congress, which are apportioned among the islands according to their populations. The table 4-28 gives the island populations as percentages of the total population of Margarita.

Table 4-28

Island	$A$	$B$	$C$	$D$
Population Percentage	6.24	26.16	28.48	39.12