Table 22-3 the Citizens of Paradoxopolis Will Decide Whether to Build a Build

question 125

Multiple Choice

Table 22-3
The citizens of Paradoxopolis will decide whether to build a new school,build a new park,or build a new road.Exactly one of the three choices will prevail,and the choice will be made by way of pairwise voting,with the majority determining the outcome on each vote.The preferences of the voters are summarized in the table below.

-Refer to Table 22-3.If the citizens of Paradoxopolis use a Borda count,rather than pairwise majority voting,to decide what to build,then they will build a new

• A) school.
• B) park.
• C) road.
• D) None of the above is correct;a Borda count fails to produce a winner in this instance.

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