HW 3 Solutions

 
Ch. 1: 36, 59, 65, 74bc  d .

      (b) No such example exists! Plurality-with-elimination does satisfy this criterion. Reason: If X has a majority of the last place votes, then regardless of who is eliminated in each round, X will continue to have a majority of the last place votes after each elimination; so X will never win, because it's impossible to simultaneously have a majority of last place votes and a majority of first place votes.