The Southwestern High School Class of 1986 is organizing its 35-year class reunion and is trying to

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The Southwestern High School Class of 1986 is organizing its 35-year class reunion and is trying to pick out a band to play at the reunion. The choices are REO Speedwagon (R), Boston (B), Journey (J), and Fleetwood Mac (F). The class members have ranked their choices as indicated in the following preference table.

a) Is one band favored over all others in a head-to-head comparison?

b) Which band is chosen if the plurality method is used?

c) Which band is chosen if the Borda count method is used?

d) Which band is chosen if the plurality with elimination method is used?

e) Which band is chosen if the pairwise comparison method is used?

f) Which voting methods in parts (a) through (e) violate the head-to-head criterion?

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A Survey Of Mathematics With Applications

ISBN: 9780135740460

11th Edition

Authors: Allen R. Angel, Christine D. Abbott, Dennis Runde

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