#ATTENDANCE QUIZ FOR LECTURE 17a of Dr. Z.'s Math454(02) Rutgers University

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THE NUMBER OF ATTENDANCE QUESTIONS WERE: 6

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1. Why are Republicans red and democrats blue?
In the 1888 presidential election, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison used maps that coded blue for the Republicans, the color perceived to represent the Union and "Lincoln's Party", and red for the Democrats

2. In the 2008 election whoever won, in how many ways could he have gotten the exact number of electoral votes that they actually got? 
365 votes
318241652483

3. What is the probability that it is consistent in such an election with 1000 states?
binomial(1000,500)/2^1000 = 0.02522501818

4. How often will we get 500*x[0] + 500*x[1] in add(x[LC(1/2)],i=1..1000)?
binomial(1000,500)/2^1000 = 0.02522501818

5. Run SimuCount([1$100],1/2,10000,4)[2];. How close is it to C(100)?
SimuCount([1$100],1/2,10000,4)[2] = 0.07958923739.
C(100) = 0.07958923739
not that close

6. 
(i) Are there other countries with the electoral college system?
Burundi, Estonia, India, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Myanmar, Pakistan, Trinidad and Tobago and Vanuatu
(ii) What is the counterpart of USEC?
For Pakistan, [65,65,65,65,104,342]