ebecca Smith is the purchasing manager for B & B$,$ Inc., a

manufacturer of multi$-$port PC$-$based voice processing boards that link

PC$-$based computer applications to the telephone network to provide

voice$/$fax mail, interactive voice response, and other telephone

applications. Rebecca has collected the data for the company$$s three

suppliers $($see Table $1).$ Because supplier selection is a key

responsibility, Rebecca would like to develop a model for evaluating

supplier conformance in four critical performance elements: price, quantity, quality, and delivery.

She has decided to use a weighted$-$point evaluation scheme that develops a score for each element and

then calculates an overall performance index based on the weights assigned to each performance

element. In her quantification scheme, a supplier would earn performance points as follows: If supplier B had perfect scores of $100$ for quantity, quality, and delivery, what price would it

have to charge to achieve an overall rating of $95$ and become the preferred supplier?