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Critical Thinking.  The following table gives the result of…

Critical Thinking.  The following table gives the result of an apportionment by Hamilton’s Method for a National Assembly for a country with 2 provinces, A and B.  Province Population Seats Assigned A 400,000 4 B 600,000 6 A new province, C, is joining the assembly. The house size was increased from 10 seats to 15 seats to make room for this new province. After Hamilton’s Method was used with this new house size, this was the resulting apportionment:  Province Population Seats Assigned A 400,000 4 B 600,000 6 C 500,000 5 Based on the data above, does this new apportionment illustrate any of the apportionment paradoxes? If so, which one(s)?