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Final Examination in Mathematics in the Modern World

GE 4 – MMW

Solve the following problems. Goodluck.

1. Fifty people were asked to rank their preferences of five varieties of chocolate candy, using 1
for their most favorite and 5 for their least favorite. This type of choices is called a
preferences schedule. The results are shown in the table below.

Chocolate
Rankings
Candy
Caramel 5 4 4 4 2 4
Vanilla 1 5 5 5 5 5
Almond 2 3 2 1 3 3
Coffee 4 1 1 3 4 2
Cocoa 3 2 3 2 1 1
Number of
17 11 9 8 3 2
Votes

According to this table, which variety would win in the following voting system:
a. Plurality voting
b. Plurality elimination method
c. Borda count method
d. Pairiwse comparison method.

2. Consider a small country with states, two of which are much larger than the others. We need
to apportion 70 representatives. Find the required apportionment using both Webster’s
method and the Huntington-Hill method.

State Population
A 300,500
B 200,000
C 50,000
D 38,000
E 21,500

3.
Use the Caesar cipher to encrypt the following messages:

a. SAVE OUR MOTHER EARTH

b. MATHEMATICS IS VERY INTERESTING
c. EDUCATION IS IMPORTANT

4. Decrypt the following messages which were encrypted using the Caesar cipher:
a. VWXGBKDUGHU
b. EHKRQHVWDOOWKHWLPH
c. UHVSHFWWKHHOGHUOB
d. ORYHIRUFRXQWUB

5. Draw the lines of Symmetry for the following shapes.

6. Assume the dotted line to be the mirror. Draw what would be seen in the mirror if the image
in front is given.

Note:

Take a photo of your answer / solution in pdf and send it to oscarcbarawid@gmail.com

Prepared by:

OSCAR C. BARAWID JR., M.E., Ph.D.

Professor V