Trying to Decide Between Three Alternatives, a Company Employed a Scoring

question 10

Multiple Choice

Trying to decide between three alternatives, a company employed a scoring model.Three criteria were chosen.Criteria A was believed to be the most important and so was given a weight of 50%.The other two were deemed to be equal to each other in importance.A relative scoring range of 0 to 10 was used.The table below shows each alternative and their scores.Which alternative should the company choose?

• A) Choose alternative A
• B) Choose alternative B
• C) Choose alternative C
• D) Choose either alternative A or B
• E) Choose either alternative A or C

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