Fake City has a population of 200,221 people and nine districts that are represented by nine members of the city council.They wish to redraw the district lines so that each district consists of the same amount of people. How many people would have to move into Fake City for them to achieve their goal? Choose the correct choice:
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 E) 5
To figure this out, we use the divisibility rule of 9 to get our answer. We add the digits together and get a seven. Since we are adding people to the population, we add two(9 can be divided by 9) to people to the city to get a population of 200,223 people. Answer is option 2
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Fake City has a population of 200,221 people and nine districts that are represented by nine members of the city council.They wish to redraw the district lines so that each district consists of the same amount of people. How many people would have to move into Fake City for them to achieve their goal?