
Math in Our World
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780073519678
Author: David Sobecki Professor, Allan G. Bluman
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 13.3, Problem 21E
If the West Oak Golf Club is unavailable and the votes were recounted in the election shown in Exercise 17, is the irrelevant alternatives criterion violated?
17. The McKees’ Point Yacht Club Board of Directors wants to decide where to hold their fall business meeting. The choices arc the Country Club (C), Frankie’s Fine Foods (F), West Oak Golf Club (W), and Rosa’s Restaurant (R). The results of the election are shown in the preference table.
(a) Determine the winner using the pairwise comparison method.
(b) Is this the same winner as the one using the Borda count method in Exercise 8 of Section 13-2?
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