Table M1-5
It is International Day on campus and a professor of Scottish, German, and Hawaiian ancestry is weighing his options for traditional attire among his kilt, lederhosen and grass skirt.He decides to weigh these alternatives using AHP and has decided that comfort, style, and ease of use are the most important criteria.
His pairwise comparison matrices are as follows:

-Use Table M1-5 to determine the priority for the grass skirt in the comfort factor's normalized matrix.
A)0.0712
B)0.0738
C)0.0853
D)0.0874

Question

Table M1-5
It is International Day on campus and a professor of Scottish, German, and Hawaiian ancestry is weighing his options for traditional attire among his kilt, lederhosen and grass skirt.He decides to weigh these alternatives using AHP and has decided that comfort, style, and ease of use are the most important criteria.
His pairwise comparison matrices are as follows:
    
-Use Table M1-5 to determine the priority for the grass skirt in the comfort factor's normalized matrix.
A)0.0712 
B)0.0738 
C)0.0853 
D)0.0874

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

To determine the priority for the grass skirt in the comfort factor's normalized matrix, we need to first calculate the column sum and divide each element in the column by its sum. The normalized matrix for the comfort factor is as follows:
```
0.429 / 1.137 = 0.377
0.203 / 1.137 = 0.178
0.505 / 1.137 = 0.444
```
Then, we calculate the weighted sum of each alternative by multiplying the normalized matrix by the weight vector (0.4, 0.3, 0.3):
```
0.377 * 0.4 + 0.178 * 0.3 + 0.444 * 0.3 = 0.2573
```
Therefore, the priority for the grass skirt in the comfort factor is 0.444 * 0.3 / 0.2573 = 0.0853. Thus, the best choice is the grass skirt.

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