You are trying to determine which city to live in. New York and Chicago are under consideration. Four objectives will determine your decision: affordability of housing, cultural opportunities, quality of schools and universities, and crime level. The weight for each objective is in Table.
|
Affordability of housing |
.50 |
|
Cultural opportunities |
.10 |
|
Quality of schools and universities |
.20 |
|
Crime level |
.20 |
For each objective (except for quality of schools and universities) New York and Chicago scores are as given in Table.
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New York |
Chicago |
|
Affordability of housing |
.30 |
.70 |
|
Cultural opportunities |
.70 |
.30 |
|
Crime level |
.40 |
.60 |
Suppose that the score for each city on the quality of schools and universities depends on two things: a score on public school quality and a score on university quality. The pairwise comparison matrix for public school and university quality is as follows:

To see how each city scores on public school quality and university quality use the following pairwise comparison matrices. For public school quality:

For university quality:

You should now be able to come up with a score for each city on the quality of schools and universities objective. Now determine where you should live.