You are in charge of analyzing five new suppliers of an important raw material and have been…

You are in charge of analyzing five new suppliers of an important raw material and have been given the information shown below (1 = worst, 10 = best). Management has decided that criteria 2 and 3 are equally important and that criteria 1 and 4 are each four times as important as criterion 2. No more than two new suppliers are required but each new vendor must exceed a total score of 70 percent of the maximum total points to be considered.

a. Which new vendors do you recommend?

b. Would your decision change if the criteria were considered equally important?