Hi can anyone refresh my memory when it comes to reapportioning?
I can't for the life of me remember how you work out the fractions between departments for example I need to reapportion Dept 3 & 4 back to the other 2 departments can anyone help?
you need to calculate out the percentage of the whole represented by the original two departments.
So 119400+127000 = 246400
119400 is (approximately) 48.46% of 246400
127000 is (approximately) 51.54% of 246000
therefore add 119400+(48.46% of 39200)+ (48.46% of 29400) = 152,644 (rounded)
and 127000+(51.54% of 39200)+ (51.54% of 29400) = 162356 (rounded)
with this sort of question you need to be very careful over the way that the question is phrased but assuming that the question just asks for a straight reapportionment of departments 3 and 4 based on the relative posions of departments 1 and 2 then this should be what you are looking for.
Also me careful on preciasion as some questions will want exact figures and some rough figures. I went for a mid point but you may find that the actual answer rounds to 48% and 52%.
Hope that helps and sure others will correct the above if I've made a mistake (I'm full of the flu so not firing on all cylinders today, sorry).
All the best,
Shaun.
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