Question: Who elects the president of the United States? Of course, it’s the Electoral College, not the general voting public. In the USA presidential election, the Electoral College uses data on state populations.

In this exploratory, you will calculate the percentage of the Electoral College vote allocated to each state, and use mathematics to reflect on the differences. Several questions are provided to strengthen your understanding of measures of central tendency and fluency with decimals and percents.

The Electoral College is a group of citizen delegates who cast votes for the president of the United States. The candidate who gets the most votes wins the election. The number of voters in the Electoral College, or electors, varies from state to state. In this activity you will investigate both what these differences are and what they mean to a presidential candidate.

Using your computer search engine to find these 3 things:

1. When and b) why was the electoral college was created? Write well developed sentences that discuss your findings.

c) Conclude with your opinion on the need for it's use in these contemporary times.

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