Question

A university is composed of five schools. The enrollment in each school is given:

Humanities: 1050
Social Science: 1410
Engineering: 1850
Business: 2540
Education: 3580
There are 300 new computers to be apportioned to another school's computer labs according to their respective enrollments. Using Hamilton's method, what would be the standard divisor for this situation?

Answer 1

34.767 enrollments/computer

Explanation:

According to the Hamilton's method, the standard divisor, D, is determined by dividing the number of enrollments in all schools by the number of new computers available:

`D=(1050+1410+1850+2540+3580)/(300)\\D=34.767\ enrollments/computer`

The standard divisor for this situation should be 34.767 enrollments/computer.