Question 13.35

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
  1. Which tasks will Mary do?
  2. Which tasks will Fred do?
  3. Which task do they share, and who takes on more of the burden for this task?

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.