Question

4. As part of a "green" initiative pilot program, California wants to apportion 200 newelectric vehicles to three university system campuses, based on the number of studentsenrolled at each campus. Find the standard divisor, SD, for the chosen pilot schools,shown in the table below. Round your answer to the nearest thousandth, if necessary.Show your work.

Answer 1

Standard divisor formula

`\text{ standard divisor = }\frac{\text{total population}}{\text{ number of }allocated\text{ items}}`

Given that California wants to apportion 200 new electric vehicles, then 200 is the number of allocated items.

The total population is obtained from the table.

Then, the standard divisor is:

`\begin{gathered} \text{ standard divisor = }\frac{2700+20956+25938}{\text{2}00} \\ \text{ standard divisor = }\frac{49594}{\text{2}00} \\ \text{ standard divisor = }247.97 \end{gathered}`