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

question 19

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?
$\begin{array}{ccll}\underline{\text { Criteria }} & \underline{\text { Alternative A }} & \underline{\text { Alternative B }} & \underline{\text { Alternative C }} \\\text { A } & 5 & 6 & 7 \\\text { B } & 8 & 7 & 7 \\\text { C } & 8 & 8 & 5\end{array}$

• 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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