Maths/Stats challenge - 1 of 2 - polls
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05-23-2022, 11:01 AM
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Maths/Stats challenge - 1 of 2 - polls
Here's a challenge. I think it's a bit like finding fractional approximations to arbitrary numbers, but different.
Given a poll result, come up with a series of ever-better approximations of how many votes might have been cast. For example, a poll with A: 10% B: 20% C: 40% D: 30% could plausibly have had 10 voters. In this case there's no point going further, but in any case there's a sensible limit of 100 voters for a given result. Here's a real-world poll result: A: 23% B: 41% C: 36% And here's another real-world result: A: 12% B: 18% C: 45% D: 25% Two more examples from the wild: 16, 2, 51, 31 45, 17, 25, 13, 0 (All of those have answers which are below 100) (We should perhaps assume that percentages have been rounded, so we might get an approximate and not exact match.) |
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