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Which compromise do the delegates develop to count a states slave population?

a. great compromise
b. 3/5th compromise

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The compromise solution was to count three out of every five slaves as people for this purpose. Its effect was to give the Southern states a third more seats in Congress and a third more electoral votes than if slaves had been ignored, but fewer than if slaves and free people had been counted equally.

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