QUESTION 1 There are four Alien outposts on the Planet 4546B: West, North, South, and East. The populations of each outp
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QUESTION 1
There are four Alien outposts on the Planet 4546B: West, North,South, and East. The populations of each outpost are asfollows: West = 26, North = 42, South = 15, and East =17.
The citizens are planning to build a spaceport on the Planet,but they only have enough funds to build one spaceport. Eachcitizen wants the spaceport to beas close to their home outpost aspossible. In order to decide where to build the spaceport, theAliens conduct a democratic election where each Alien ranks theirchoices of spaceport location on a ballot. Each vote is weightedequally, and Aliens living in the same outpost vote identically.The results are tabulated below.
(a) Identify the location of the spaceport if the pluralityvoting method is used.
(b) Identify the location of the spaceport if theplurality-with-elimination voting method (also known as theinstant-runoff voting method) is used.
(c) Identify the location of the spaceport if thepairwise-comparison voting method (also known as the Condorcetvoting method) is used.
(d) Identify the location of the spaceport if the Bordacount voting method is used. _____winswith points.
There are four Alien outposts on the Planet 4546B: West, North,South, and East. The populations of each outpost are asfollows: West = 26, North = 42, South = 15, and East =17.
The citizens are planning to build a spaceport on the Planet,but they only have enough funds to build one spaceport. Eachcitizen wants the spaceport to beas close to their home outpost aspossible. In order to decide where to build the spaceport, theAliens conduct a democratic election where each Alien ranks theirchoices of spaceport location on a ballot. Each vote is weightedequally, and Aliens living in the same outpost vote identically.The results are tabulated below.
(a) Identify the location of the spaceport if the pluralityvoting method is used.
(b) Identify the location of the spaceport if theplurality-with-elimination voting method (also known as theinstant-runoff voting method) is used.
(c) Identify the location of the spaceport if thepairwise-comparison voting method (also known as the Condorcetvoting method) is used.
(d) Identify the location of the spaceport if the Bordacount voting method is used. _____winswith points.