As an operations management student, you have been hired by a local restaurant to perform a factor-rating analysis to help the restaurant choose an outsourcing provider. You have identified three important factors: quality, taste, and delivery time; giving the following weightage to each factor: 60% for the quality, 30% for taste, and 10% for the delivery. You have scored three different potential outsourcing providers on the three factors, using a scale of 1 to 5 (with 5 representing the best option and 1 representing the worst). Based on the scores provided in the table below, which outsourcing provider should the restaurant choose?

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FACTORS Quality Taste Delivery WEIGHTAGE 0.6 0.3 0.1 PROVIDER RATING (OUT OF 5) PROVIDER PROVIDER PROVIDER A B с 5 1 2 2 24 4 5 3 1 4