Which of the following best explains the three-fifths compromise?
-delegates agreed that three-fifths of the voting members had to be in favor of a law before it was written into the constitution.
-delegates agreed that three out of five members of the house or senate from each state must be men who had served in a branch of the military.
-delegates agreed that each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining the population and representation in congress.
-delegates agreed that each state must have at least three out of five delegates present at the constitutional convention for that state to get a vote.