Question 14.69

image image 39. In 2001, Utah sued to increase its apportionment (Utah v. Evans). Federal employees stationed abroad are counted in the apportionment population of the state of their residence, and Utah wanted to include in its apportionment population religious missionaries who were based in the state and serving abroad.

  1. In the apportionment based on the 2000 census, North Carolina received the last seat. Its apportionment population was 8,067,673, and it was apportioned 13 seats. Find the largest divisor that would allow North Carolina 13 seats.
  2. Utah’s apportionment population (not counting missionaries) was 2,236,714, and Utah was apportioned 3 seats in the House of Representatives. Find the population that would be required for Utah to be apportioned 4 seats, with the same divisor that you found in part (a).
  3. To justify the transfer of a seat from North Carolina to Utah, by how much would Utah’s population have to increase? (In the suit, Utah claimed that its residents should include 11,000 missionaries.)

39.

(a) The rounding point between 12 and 13 is . Dividing North Carolina’s apportionment population by . we obtain . With a divisor greater than , North Carolina will receive fewer than 13 seats; with a divisor less than , North Carolina’s apportionment will be at least 13.

(b) With a population greater than , Utah would be apportioned 4 seats.

(c) 856