Introduction to Management Science 12th Edition by Bernard Taylor

Exercise 19

The department of management science at Tech offers four sections of introductory quantitative methods in the fall semester, each taught by a different teacher. A group of students have developed the following criteria to rank the sections: time and day, grading history of the instructor, classroom atmosphere (i.e., relaxed or formal), amount of homework, and the teacher's sense of humor. Following are the students' preferences for these criteria:
Following are the students' pairwise comparisons of the sections for the criteria:




a. Using AHP, rank the courses for the students.
b. Using this framework and these criteria, but with your own preferences for a course with multiple sections that you are familiar with at your school, develop a ranking of the sections.