> #THE NUMBER OF ATTENDANCE QUESTIONS WERE: 6 ; > ; > #Q1 ; > #Why are Republicans red and Democrats blue? ; > ; > #The color scheme was a simple choice, according Archie Tse, senior graphics editor at The New York Times. As he told The Verge in 2012, "red begins with r, Republican begins with r, it was a more natural association." In 1976, NBC used its first on-air election map and the bulbs turned red to designate states won by Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter and blue to designate states won by Republican nominee Gerald Ford. As The Verge points out, that color scheme was based on Great Britain's political system, where the liberal party was associated with the color blue. ; > ; > #Q2 ; > #In the 2008 election whoever won, in how many ways could he have gotten the exact number of electoral votes that they actually got? ; > ; > coeff(GFv(USEC(), x), x, 365) 3182416524832 ; > ; > #Q3 ; > #What is the probability of in such an election with 1000 states that it is consistent? ; > ; > evalf(binomial(1000, trunc(1/2*1000))/2^1000) 0.2522501817836080190684168876210245455294e-1 ; > ; > #Q4 ; > #How often will we get 500*x[0] + 500*x[1] ; > ; > #AROUND P = 0.025 ; > ; > #Q5 ; > #Run SimuCount([1$100], 1/2, 10000,4). How close is this to C(100)? ; > #SimuCount([1$100], 1/2, 10000, 4)[2] > #.1591000000 > #C(100) > #.7958923739e-1 ; > ; > #Q6 ; > #Are there other countries with the electoral college system (similar to the US) Either today or in the past? If you find them, what is the counterpart of USEC()? ; > #YES. FOR EXAMPLE Germany ; > ;