You are a government funding agency and have received a large number of grant proposals...

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You are a government funding agency and have received a large number of grant proposals Each proposal has been reviewed by a panel of experts and classified as meritorious or non meritorious Only meritorious proposals can receive funding There are 356 such proposals and you only have enough funding to support 129 of them You decide to hold a lottery However you want to ensure that at least 75 grants are awarded to proposals from public universities Of the meritorious proposals 118 are from public universities You decide to give each meritorious proposal a lottery number then take the 75 proposals from public universities with the lowest lottery numbers then fund the remaining 54 proposals with the lowest lottery numbers On average how many funded proposals will be from public universities Round your answer to the nearest whole number

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You are a government funding agency and have received a large number of grant proposals Each proposal has been reviewed by a panel of experts and classified as meritorious or non meritorious Only meritorious proposals can receive funding There are 356 such proposals and you only have enough funding to support 129 of them You decide to hold a lottery However you want to ensure that at least 75 grants are awarded to proposals from public universities Of the meritorious proposals 118 are from public universities You decide to give each meritorious proposal a lottery number then take the 75 proposals from public universities with the lowest lottery numbers then fund the remaining 54 proposals with the lowest lottery numbers On average how many funded proposals will be from public universities Round your answer to the nearest whole number

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