The president of Pegasus Corporation is trying to decide which of three candidates (denoted as candidates A, B, and C) to hire as the firm’s new vice president of Marketing. The primary criteria the president is considering are each candidate’s leadership ability, interpersonal skills, and administrative ability. After carefully considering their qualifications, the president used AHP to create the following pairwise comparison matrices for the three candidates on the various criteria:

Next, the president of Pegasus considered the relative importance of the three criteria. This resulted in the following pairwise comparison matrix:

a. Use AHP to compute scores for each candidate on each of the three criteria, and to compute weights for each of the criteria.
b. Was the president consistent in making pairwise comparisons?
c. Compute the weighted average score for each candidate. Which candidate should be selected according to yourresults?

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Leadership Ability 8 B 1/31 C 1/4 1/2 1 Interpersonal Skills A 1 1/2 3 C 1/31/8 1 Administrative Ability 1 1/5 1/8 5 1 1/3 C 8 Criteria Leadership Ability Interpersonal kills Administrative Leadership Ability Interpersonal Skills Administrative Ability Ability 1/4 1/2 1/3