1. Pueblo, a southwestern chain of stores that sells decorative accessories for the home, is considering opening a store in New England. Three potential sites are being evaluated for the new store. Each factor used in evaluating these sites has been assigned a weight to represent its relative importance to the potential success of the store.

The three sites were then assigned points on a scale between 0 and a best possible score of 100 to illustrate how well the site scored with regard to the particular factor.

Rank the three sites shown in the following table on the basis of the total weighted points for each site.

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Site Location PROVIDENCE, RI PORTLAND, ME FACTOR WEIGHT BOSTON, MA Construction cost 0.10 60 70 Operating cost 0.10 60 70 Traffic count 0.30 90 Convenient access 0.20 75 Parking area 0.20 60 75 Surrounding population 0.10 70 PROGRE 80 80 60 ERROR 80 80 70 70 90 75