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Selecting the most fair allocation should be fairly easy. Most people immediately pick Allocation A because it has 5 stacks of size 5, and the other 4 stacks are of size 4 or 6. It is the most similar to the fair allocation.
Selecting the least fair allocation is also relatively easy. Most people immediately pick Allocation B as the least fair. Its stacks are only of size 1 or 10, which is quite different from the fair allocation of 5 for each stack.
Otherwise, answers will vary depending on how people measure "fairness." One method is to find the allocation where, on average, the stack sizes are closest to 5. This is accomplished by finding, in total, how far away the stacks are from 5. Using this criterion, Allocation A is the most fair, followed by Allocations D, C, E, and B.
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