Question

Delaware has a K-12 student enrollment of 120,475 across 19 districts. Alabama has 630,683 students across 137 districts. If Delaware was proportional to Alabama in enrollment to the district, how many districts would Delaware have? Round to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

If Delaware was proportional to Alabama in enrollment to the district, it would have approximately 37 districts.

Here's how I calculated it:

The ratio of students to districts in Alabama is 630,683/137 = 4,603 students per district. If Delaware had the same ratio of students to districts, it would have 120,475/4,603 = 26.16 districts. Rounding to the nearest whole number, Delaware would have approximately 26 districts if it was proportional to Alabama in enrollment to the district.