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(male narrator) So using Lowndes' method in, uh...Rhode Island,
uh...it starts out the same way with a quota,
and then our initial allocation,
which in this case only totals to, uh...72 seats.
Uh...now, in Lowdnes' method,
to decide where to allocate those three extra seats,
we need to figure out the ratio
of decimal part to the whole part, uh...of the quota,
so we take the .5538
and divide it by the whole part--3--
and we get .1846 for Bristol.
For Kent, let's see, we got .8395 divided by 11,
uh...and that's .0763.
Uh...and we can do that for the rest of the states.
Uh...so looking at those ratios now,
we can complete our final allocation.
At...and so the first of our extra seats--
remember we got three more seats to allocate--
the first one's gonna go
to the one with the largest ratio,
which in this case is-is Bristol.
Uh...Kent...sorry, Newport has the next highest, uh...ratio,
so they're gonna get an extra seat.
Uh...and then Kent is the next biggest,
uh...and so Kent will get an extra seat.
The other two will not, and that allocates our 75 seats.
Now again, notice that there is a bias here again
towards the smaller... the smaller,
um...the smaller counties.
Uh...it's probably not surprising
that this was never accepted by Congress,
considering that the smaller states that,
uh...that it would benefit, uh...don't have as much say
in the decision making, uh...as the larger states.
Anyway, that is Lowndes' method.