Victor Pimentel, purchasing manager of Office Supply Center of Mexico, is searching for a new supplier for its paper. The mostimportant supplier criteria for Victor include paper quality, delivery reliability, customer service, and financial condition, and hebelieves that paper quality is twice as important as each of the other three criteria. Victor has narrowed the choice to two suppliers,and his staff has rated each supplier on each criterion (using a scale of 1 to 100, with 100 being highest), as shown in the followingtable: PAPER QUALITY DELIVERY RELIABILITY CUSTOMER SERVICE FINANCIAL CONDITIONMonterrey Paper 85 70 65 80Papel Grande 80 90 95 75Use the factor-weighting approach to determine the best supplier choice.

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