You intend to devise a weighted average approach to measure and report employee performance. You plan to score each employee in three general areas—technical proficiency, interpersonal skills, and initiative—and want a weighting scheme that will make technical proficiency twice as important as interpersonal skills and five times as important as initiative. 

a. Recommend an appropriate set of weights.

b. Suppose an employee earns the following scores: technical profciency—85; interpersonal skills—60; initiative—98. Using the weights in part a, what weighted average score would be assigned?