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COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND ALLIED MEDICAL PROFESSIONS - DEPARTMENT OF NURSING

BSN 1-N / GE 3 – Mathematics in the Modern World (2022-

2023)

ACTIVITY 9.2: VOTING METHOD PROBLEMS

1. Students at a college were asked to rank three improvements they
would like to see at their college. The choices were build a new
gymnasium (G), build a swimming pool (S), or build a baseball /
football field (B). The votes were summarized in the preference table.

Number of 83 76 42 47
Votes
1st choice G S S B
2nd choice S G B S
3rd choice B B G G

PLURALITY METHOD
Number of 83 76 42 47
Votes
1 choice
st G S S B
2nd choice S G B S
3rd choice B B G G

Using this preference table, we simply list down the number of votes for each
candidate in the 1st choice.
G= 83, S= 76 + 42= 118, B= 47
Using the Plurality method, we declare that the majority of the students
voted to build swimming pool (S) with 118 votes, followed by the new
gymnasium with 83 votes and lastly, the baseball/football field with 47 votes.

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2. A local movie theater asks its patrons which movies they would like
to view during next months “Oldies but Goodies” week. The choices
are Gone with the Wind (G), Casablanca (C), Anatomy of Murder (A),
and Back to the Future (B). The preference table is shown below.

Number of 311 317 206 118

Votes
1 choice
st G A C B
2nd choice A C B G
3rd choice C B G A
4th choice B G A C

PLURALITY METHOD WITH ELIMINATION

Number of 311 317 206 118 952
Votes
1 choice
st G A C B
2nd choice A C B G
3 choice
rd C B G A
4 choice
th B G A C
Total number of voters= 952 50% of 952= 476
With this, we have movie A with 317 votes, but he is not the winner since, 317<476

From 4 choices we are now left with 3 because B was eliminated due to least number of votes
Number of 311 317 206 118 952
Votes
1 choice
st G A C G
2nd choice A C G A
3rd choice C G A C
G= 311+118= 429, A= 317, C= 206
Now we have 429 votes, but still not in the majority as 429<476

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From 3 choices we are now left with 2 because C was eliminated due to least number of votes
Number of 311 317 206 118 952
Votes
1 choice
st G A G G
2nd choice A G A A
G= 311+206+118= 635, A= 317
Now we have 635 votes as majority votes as 635>476

Since movie G has 635<476, we declare Gone with the Wind (G) as the
winner using Plurality method with elimination.

3. A panel of experts is convened to decide which hospital is the best

hospital overall in a metropolitan area. The 4 hospitals under
consideration are Western Visayas Medical Center (W), Community
General Hospital (G), Children’s Hospital (C), Iloilo Doctors Hospital
(D). The preference table is shown below.
Number of 5 5 4 6 6
Votes
1 choice
st W D C C W
2nd choice G C W G C
3rd choice C G G D D
4th choice D W D W G

BORDA COUNT METHOD

Number of 5 5 4 6 6 Rankings
Votes
1st choice W D C C W 4
2 choice
nd G C W G C 3
3rd choice C G G D D 2
4th choice D W D W G 1
W= 5(4)+6(4)+4(3)+5(1)+6(1)= 20+24+12+5+6=67
G= 5(3)+5(2)+4(2)+6(3)+6(1)= 15+10+8+18+6=57
C= 5(2)+5(3)+4(4)+6(4)+6(3)= 10+15+16+24+18=83
D= 5(1)+5(4)+4(1)+6(2)+6(2)= 5+20+4+12+12=53
We declare, Children’s Hospital (C) as the preferred best hospital overall
in a metropolitan area.

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