Question

. Suppose you have the job of assigning the proper number of House of Representatives seats for various states. To do that, you must know the _______ in that state.

A. apportionment
B. number of counties
C. population
D. number of districts

Answer 1

The number of Representatives per State is dependent on the population of the state. However, there is not a direct correspondence between the number of people and the number of seats: the exact number is decided by Apportionment - - the correct answer is A.

Currently there are approximately 600 000 people per representative - in 1950s it was 300 000.