A School District Is Considering Four Locations for a New

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Essay

A school district is considering four locations for a new high school.There are four factors the district is considering (Cost of land,distance to students,land size,and traffic flow).The district would like to compare results using two weighting systems.The first system would give each factor equal weight and the second would give the factors weights of .4,.2,.1,and .3 respectively.Fill in the missing information in the table and then use the factor rating method to determine which location is best for each weighting system.

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Definitions:

Ordinal Data

A type of data that represents categories with a meaningful order, but differences between categories are not necessarily consistent.

Nonparametric Test

Statistical tests that do not assume a particular distribution of the data, useful for ordinal or nominal data.

Ordinal Data

Data that can be categorized or ranked in order but does not quantitatively measure differences between categories.

Normally Distributed Populations

Populations that follow a normal distribution, characterized by a bell-shaped curve.