Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/120 - Proportional Representation
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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $120$
- Proportional Representation
- In a local election, there were ten names of candidates on a proportional representation ballot paper.
- Voters should place No. $1$ against the candidate of their first choice.
- They might also place No. $2$ against the candidate of their second choice,
- and so on until all the ten candidates have numbers placed against their names.
- The voters must mark their first choice, and any others may be marked or not as they wish.
- How many different ways might the ballot paper be marked by the voter?
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Various Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: $120$. -- Proportional Representation
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Miscellaneous Puzzles: $194$. Proportional Representation