5. Mary and Fred are serving as co-chairs of the mathematics department. There are a number of time-consuming tasks that must be done by one or the other. It really doesn’t matter who does which task, except that they disagree on how unpleasant particular tasks are. They decide to use the adjusted winner procedure by phrasing items as “The other co-chair will handle __________________.” The items and point assignments are as follows:
The other co-chair will handle: | Mary’s Points | Fred’s Points |
---|---|---|
Salary recommendations | 11 | 19 |
Class schedules | 19 | 9 |
Hiring | 14 | 20 |
Department meetings | 20 | 10 |
Calculus placement | 21 | 11 |
External review | 15 | 31 |
5.
(a) Mary will handle salary recommendations and external reviews.
(b) Fred will handle class schedules, department meetings, and calculus placement.
(c) They share hiring. Since Fred retained , Mary will be taking on more of the burden.