Question

To amend a country’s constitution, 7/9 of the 84 states in that country must approve the amendment. If 66 states approve the amendment, will the constitution be amended?

Answer 1

Since only 66 states approve the amendment, it falls short of the required 7/9 majority. Therefore, the constitution will not be amended.

Explanation:

To determine whether the constitution will be amended, we need to compare the number of states that have approved the amendment to the required number of states needed for approval.

The requirement is that 7/9 of the 84 states must approve the amendment. So, we need to calculate 7/9 of 84 to find out how many states need to approve the amendment:

(7/9) x 84 = 66.67

Rounding up, we see that 66.67 is equivalent to 67 states. This means that in order for the amendment to be approved, at least 67 states must approve it.

Since only 66 states approve the amendment, it falls short of the required 7/9 majority. Therefore, the constitution will not be amended.