Riverside Industries Makes Two Products and Each Product Is Processed

question 61

Multiple Choice

Riverside Industries makes two products and each product is processed in three departments. The time requirements for each product in each department are given below. The profit for each product is also provided as well as the available hours in each department.
$$\begin{array} { c c c c c } \text { Product } & \text { Department A } & \text { Department B } & \text { Department C } & \text { Profit } \\\mathbf { 1 } & 3 & 4 & 2 & 1 \\\mathbf { 2 } & 2 & 1 & 2 & 2\\Available~ Hours&600&400&400\end{array}$$ Management wants to achieve three goals. The first two goals are equal in priority.
Priority 1: Produce at least 125 units of product 1.
Priority 1: Produce at least 80 units of product 2.
Priority 2: Achieve a profit of at least 300.
-If choice A is strongly preferred to choice B and choice B is moderately preferred to choice C, and the decision maker says choice C is equally preferred to choice A, what conclusion can be drawn?

• A) The decision maker is consistent.
• B) The decision maker is inconsistent.
• C) The pairwise comparison matrix is symmetric.
• D) The decision maker has already synthesized.

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