In Allocating Weights to the Decision Criteria, Which of the Following

question 22

Multiple Choice

In allocating weights to the decision criteria, which of the following is helpful to remember?

• A) All weights must be the same.
• B) Assign a weight to the most important criterion, and then assign weights to the rest against that standard.
• C) Every criterion considered, regardless of its importance, must receive some weighting.
• D) The most important and least important criteria should be inversely weighted.
• E) The total of the weights should sum to 1.0.

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