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

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THE NUMBER OF ATTENDANCE QUESTIONS WERE: 6

PLEASE LIST ALL THE QUESTIONS FOLLOWED, AFTER EACH, BY THE ANSWER



Question 1:


Why are republicans red and democrats blue?


Answer 1:

Though red and blue have often been used to stand in for opposing sides in U.S. political history, it's only since the 2000 election that red and blue have been assigned to the political parties consistently. 

That year, The New York Times and USA Today published full-color electoral maps for the first time, and according to The Verge, they assigned the colors fairly arbitrarily. 

"[R]ed begins with r, Republican begins with r," senior graphics editor Archie Tse told The Verge. "It was a more natural association."


Question 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?


Answer 2:

coeff(GFv(L,x),x,365)
3182416524832



Question 3:

What is the probability that an election is consistent with 1000 states?


Answer 3:

binomial(1000,500)/ 2^1000


Question 4:

How often will we get exactly 500x[0] + 500x[1]?


Answer 4:





Question 5:


Run SimuCount([1$100],1/2,10000,4)[2]. How close is it to 0.1591784748?


Answer 5:

SimuCount([1$100],1/2,10000,4)[2]
.1523000000

#It is very close



Question 6:

(i) Are there other countries with the electoral college system? Either today or in the past?

(ii) What is the counterpart of USEC()?



Answer 6:


(i) Other countries with electoral college systems include Burundi, Estonia, India, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Myanmar, Pakistan

(ii)

India: [1$543] - divided into 543 constituencies each of which have one electoral vote - the winning candidate must get at least 272 electoral votes.