Chapter 1, Problem 46E

Table 1-36 (see Exercise 16) shows the preference schedule for an election with five candidates (A, B, C, D, and E). The number of voters in this election was very large, so the columns of the preference schedule give the percent of voters instead of the number of voters. Find the winner of elections using the method of pairwise comparisons.

$Table1-36$

Percent of voters	$25$	$21$	$15$	$12$	$10$	$9$	$8$
$1st$	C	E	B	A	C	C	C
$2nd$	E	D	D	D	D	B	E
$3rd$	D	B	E	B	E	A	D
$4th$	A	A	C	E	A	E	B
$5th$	B	C	A	C	B	D	A