Question

Suppose you have the job of assigning the proper number of House of Representatives seats for various states. To do that, you must know the _______ in that state. A. number of districts B. apportionment C. population D. number of counties

Answer 1

The correct answer is C. Population

In order to know how many House of Representatives seats there are, you have to know the population size of all the states because the number of representatives depends on the number of citizens. This was a part of the compromise that resolved how the government would be bicameral when the constitution was being made.