As the purchasing agent for Eynan Enterprises in Richmond, Virginia, you ask your buyer to provide you with a ranking of "excellent", "good", "fair", or "poor" for a variety of characteristics were two potential vendors. You suggest that the "products" total reweighed 40% of the other three categories totals be weighed 20% each. The buyer has returned the rankings shown in the table.

Which of the two vendors would you select?

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